voter choice

• Advantage to more voter choice - reduces safe seats and wasted votes
• Advantage to more voter choice - could increase turnout but difficult to compare regional and general elections
• Advantage to more voter choice - example of STV which gives voters four choices and SV and AMS give two
• Disadvantage to more voter choice - less stable governments are formed
• Proportional systems mean:

  • nearly every vote counts and is equal
  • more difficult to understand
  • loss of MP-constituent link
  • democratic rather than an overpowerful government