Elections In Ukraine
In Ukraine, in addition, in advance of recently used a majoritarian system about the counting of votes for parliamentary and local elections.
She remained only for the presidential elections.
Majoritarian science relative majority (or simple majority) is the alphabetic variant majoritarian system.
For it shall be considered elected who receives the complexity of the votes against the other candidates.
Assuming the same number of votes received by two or more candidates apply procedure draw.
The advantage of this system in which voting takes place in a secluded path and the legislation does not establish minimum tender participation of voters.
It is a dangerous weakness for the above view, the fact that she does not dare to take into account the interests of most voters. Here, the applicant for the deputies can live and elected by an absolute minority, but it is already protivorechchit fundamental principles of democracy: social policy of the majority, which, and considers the interests and needs of minorities.
At present, the interval in Ukraine majoritarian science relative majority was zaprovadzhena partly for parliamentary and local elections for all in 1998r.
225 People's Deputies of Ukraine is elected in single-member districts for viborchih basis of relative majority (Part 2. 1 of the Law of Ukraine "On Elections of People's Deputies of Ukraine" by September 24, 1997). |