Types of voting

• First past the post is simple to use
• First past the post - the outcome is known quickly
• First past the post - people can be elected on a minority of the vote
• First past the post - smaller parties are under-representated
• Single transferrable vote - every vote helps elect someone
• Single transferrable vote - the results closely matches the votes cast for each party
• Single transferrable vote - the system often leads to many parties electing candidates
• Single transferrable vote - coalition governments are most likely
• Single transferrable vote - results can take time to count
• Supplementary vote - ensures that the winner has over 50% of the vote
• Supplementary vote - often the winner relies on second choices
• Additional member systems - ensures that the wishes of the voters are more closely aligned to the outcome
• Additional member systems - ends up with two types of elected member - one directly elected and another from a list