A PR system of election would have distributed seats more evenly based on the actual votes each party got in the election
According to statistics, former ruling alliance comprising Pakistan Muslim League, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) and Pakistan Peoples Party-Sherpao (PPP-S) secured 40% votes of the total while expected ruling parties PPPP and PML-N got 37% and 23% votes respectively
These statistics show that out of total vote cast former ruling coalition bagged 10,844,233 votes followed by PPPP with 10,055,491 votes and PML-N with 6,240,343 votes.
Looking at it another way 60% of the votes were cast against the ruling coalition and none of the individual parties in the coalition got more votes than PPP, who got the biggest share of the votes.
Lex, PR system also does not exist in the US (albeit a presidential system).
say for instance California state has 50 seats in the presidential election and Obama/Clinton, McCain and others win 47%, 46% and 7% of the popular vote respectively within the state, Obama/Clinton take all 50 seats and McCain is left holding a katora in his hand despite almost as many people in CA supporting him as Obama/Clinton!
A PR system has it's own drawbacks. say we assign seats within each province to each party on the basis of PR,
Party A does well in all the big cities of Punjab such as Lahore, Faisalabad Multan and Rawal Pindi and reasonably well but not great in rural Punjab
Party B gets next to nil votes in big cities but does very well in rural Punjab
Since 65-70% of our electorate still lives in rural areas Party B would still end up with more seats in the Punjab Assembly despite being almost blanked out in the cities!
Lex, PR system also does not exist in the US (albeit it's a presidential system). say for instance California state has 50 seats in the presidential election and Obama or Clinton, McCain and others win 47%, 46% and 7% of the popular vote within the state respectively, Obama/Clinton take all 50 seats and McCain is left holding a katora in his hand even though almost as many people in CA supported him as Obama!
A PR system has it's own drawbacks. say we assign seats within each province to each party on the basis of PR,
Party A does well in all the big cities of Punjab such as Lahore, Faisalabad Multan and Rawal Pindi and reasonably well but not great in rural areas
Party B gets next to nil votes in big cities but does well in rural Punjab
Since 65-70% of our electorate still lives in rural areas Party B would end up with more seats in the Punjab Assembly!
So each system has it's own pitfalls IMO
GoldenAsif bhaijan. Under PR system, Imran Khan would have got more seats than he would have under the current system. In the last elections he polled 1% of the votes. :)
GoldenAsif bhaijan. Under PR system, Imran Khan would have got more seats than he would have under the current system. In the last elections he polled 1% of the votes. :)
This is such an apples and oranges comparison. Its actually pretty funny, how they are trying to show they actually got some votes. And to add all of MQM’s ballot box stuffing votes in their pile is pretty innovative.
