ATYPICAL ELECTORAL SYSTEMS

Csaba Cservak
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Csaba Cservak: Associate professor, Dr. habil of University of Karoli Gaspar, Faculty of Law Budapest, HUNGARY.

Curentul Juridic, The Juridical Current, Le Courant Juridique, 2017, vol. 68, 59-71

Abstract: Around the world we can face with a big diversity in the voting systems. Within certain limits governments have the right to determine how many votes a single citizen is allowed to cast, and how. Therefore we can also find majority-, proportional- and preferential electoral systems even only in Europe. Single- and multiple-vote systems are neither unfamiliar. While the vote-transfer system is currently employed in Malta and Ireland, until present Germany has applied the personalized PR-system. The electoral system in Hungary has changed over time. According to Act XXXIV of 1989, until 2010, the electoral system was an archetype of mixed voting systems: in it, it is possible to gain a mandate both in a single district and through party lists. The Parliament operates with 386 representatives. In 2010 the system was changed under the Act CCIII of 2011. It is still a mixed system, but there are only 199 mandates can be won: 106 in relative majority single constituencies and 93 on a national list. Since it provides compensation after the votes cast in single districts, it is also, essentially, a compensational system.

Keywords: majority voting; (preferential system) premium list; vote-transfer; personalized PR-system (in Germany); Hungarian electoral model. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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