Monday, April 4, 2011

Corrections to the charts of the Spanish electoral system

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:

Silvia said...

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

Paqui Pérez Fons said...

Hello Silvia,

Thanks for checking. I have changed the second link. Now it works. Hope it´s useful for you ;)