I´ve revised the charts included on the book and there were some mistakes. Here you have the corrections:
On the first chart I coloured 8 boxes in yellow, instead of 7 and one of them was wrong. The most voted party gets 3 seats, the second party gets 3 seats and the third one gets only 1 seat. If there were 8 seats to be assigned, party number 1 would get the eighth seat with 85,000 votes. This is the right chart:
PARTY 1 | PARTY 2 | PARTY 3 | PARTY 4 | PARTY 5 | |
SEAT 1 | 340,000 (1st seat) | 280,000 (2nd seat) | 160,000 (4th seat) | 60,000 | 15,000 |
SEAT 2 | 170,000 (3rd seat ) | 140,000 (5th seat) | 80,000 | 30,000 | 7,500 |
SEAT 3 | 113,333 (6th seat) | 93,333 (7th seat) | 53,333 | 20,000 | 5,000 |
SEAT 4 | 85,000 | 70,000 | 40,000 | 15,000 | 3,750 |
SEAT 5 | 68,000 | 56,000 | 32,000 | 12,000 | 3,000 |
SEAT 6 | 56,667 | 46,667 | 26,667 | 10,000 | 2,500 |
SEAT 7 | 48,571 | 40,000 | 22,857 | 8,571 | 2,143 |
And here you have the corrections to the second chart, about the percentage of votes and the percentage of seats obtained. When I wrote this, I rounded the numbers up. This is why it didn´t make 100.
PARTY 1 | PARTY 2 | PARTY 3 | PARTY 4 | PARTY 5 | |
PERCENTAGE OF VOTES RECEIVED | 39.76% | 32.74% | 18.71% | 7.01% | 1.75% |
PERCENTAGE OF SEATS WON | 43% | 43% | 14% | 0% | 0% |
And finally, here you have three flash animations of past elections that will help you to understand better the assignment of seats:
http://www.elecciones.mir.es/generales2008/i_visita8.html
2 comments:
Hi Paqui! With this links I understand better how the works the electoral system. But the I can't see the second link.
Bye Bye
Hello Silvia,
Thanks for checking. I have changed the second link. Now it works. Hope it´s useful for you ;)
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