UK Politics: Different Electoral Systems Explained

[@aria6709]

I appreciate you so much for doing videos like this, all my lessons are online so i'm finding it hard to keep up and understand. So thank you so much!

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

You're very welcome!

[@melmel1071]

Last minute revision after missing several months of school lol. Thank you!

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

Happy to help!

[@sunsetandkdramas0339]

A-level exam today. This has been so helpful! Thank you!!

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

Glad it helped!

[@nicegan8902]

Great video. I do find it interesting from an Australian perspective that no other country seems to have adopted the compromise that we have evolved of using both chambers of a bicameral Parliament to use different voting systems. Our lower house uses single member majoritarian seats and tends to form a one party government but they are then confronted with an STV elected proportional representation upper house requiring negotiation to actually achieve anything.

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

Thank you! The Australian system sounds like an interesting one to compare to the UK and US

[@queenniyah7115]

Thank you so much, this helped my first year a level politics a lot💙

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

Glad it helped!

[@mxryam.1013]

what board were you?

[@Wordywizard1121]

Fantastic. You won my first-past-the-post vote as i throw extreme parties but i also like small parties soooo you get my additional member system vote. There's formulas, juggling and/or balancing, lists and zipping. You'll obviously get my single transferable vote on the droop side and the supplementary vote 'if i prefer'... Which i do, by majority.... even if your an unpopular minority. Just trying to find the best electorial system ever. Willy Wonka has the right idea in a way. Golden ticket the public, 'umpa lumpa' the candidates and make chocolate great again. That factory is still part owned by Charlie, Willy and miniature slaves so I'm looking forward to the sequel.

[@Lee.Smells]

I'm doing this for AS level politics (I'm in year 10) and this has helped me a lot considering how much I've missed during lockdown

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

Glad the videos are helping.

[@alexanderlockwood1961]

I dunno, I believe that the most important thing a country can have is a clear and strong government. As bad as FPTP may be, it is without a doubt the only electoral system that con properly provide this religiously. FPTP provides a strong government for the most part that can control the Commons effectively and get things done. There are tens of other systems that can provide better voter choice and equal vote value but they usually end in a coalition, FPTP rarely leads to this so yeah It may be unfair in other ways but to me it is the best system we can ask for.

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

If you prize strong government above other issues it is the most effective. As with most things in politics it comes down to what you prioritise

[@emilyjones9676]

Love this, your videos r saving me- Is there any chance you could do a video explaining the advance. Information for the 2022 exams? Including all the papers :)

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

I'll look into putting something together

[@elizabethkerry2127]

loving the Hannah Montana joke hahaha

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

My daughters were fans when they were younger so it was on in our house a lot

[@benfarmer-webb1016]

I would say the reason for unstable government in NI is the power sharing between different governments, not coalition by itself

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

Good point

[@Albanach-je1nk]

I'm in Australia and although everyone complaints about it the voting system is more democratic. It is also compulsory and proponal.

[@fififinance7469]

Very difficult to have simple foundation especially when preparing for my channel. Thanks!😍

[@nadiavetz9255]

I love your Russian history and politics videos Alan they are so helpful for me! (I’m in year 12). Do you think you could possibly make any revision videos on the English civil war

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

Hi BabiKash, I'm glad the Politics and Russia videos are proving helpful, I'll be adding more to these playlist in the upcoming months. I'm afraid I currently have no plans to cover the English Civil War (though I have done a series of videos on the American Civil War)

[@abratounani7497]

im doing this for college, but i can't wrap my head around the additional member system and it's literally my last slide argh i've gone over it again and again and just can't figure it out

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

It is a bit like two elections at the same time: 1) Straightforward FPTP election based on single member constituencies (you choose the candidate you like best) 2) A multi-member constituency election based on a regional-list system (you choose the party you want to vote for)- these are the additional members Then comes the complicated bit- regional list seats are allocated using the d'Hondt formula- essentially if a party does disproportionately well in the single member constituency votes it is penalised in the regionalist portion. All the elected members then sit in the same legislature- used for Scottish and Welsh Parliaments. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aX6WYXeupr2Aeq8

[@abratounani7497]

@@AlanHistoryNerd Thank you so much, can finally continue with coursework and be able to hand it in on time tomorrow! life saver!

[@aaaaaaa6954]

Is your politics videos enough information for exam or just the basics? Thanks very much

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

Should give you a bit more than a good starting point. One issues is that once made the videos are static whilst politics keeps moving, I would expect for example some interesting things to come from the May elections in Scotland especially with Salmond launching his Alba party. In short you will need to compliment with extra details and the things you cover in class.

[@aaaaaaa6954]

@@AlanHistoryNerd that's great thanks

[@lawrencia5099]

Politics is Hard

[@e.n5517]

fr 🥲

[@michaelflynn8909]

If your problem with FPTP is that it can lead to governments that have only been elected by a plurality of voters, then it is deeply weird to advocate for a system that results in governments that literally no one voted for.