Recent content by Oliver

Just to clarify, my map is not OTL, though a similar situation existed IOTL from 1954 until progressive orthography was basically scrapped in 1995.

They differ in the spelling of loan words. Preferential orthography generally maintains the spelling from the original language (cultuur, accent, frequent), while progressive orthography generally changes the spelling to be analogous to that of "native" words (kultuur, aksent, frekwent). The...

Nah, it's just because Brussels is not a province. Official languages in Brussels are Standard Low Franconian (progressive orthography) and obviously French.

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The Brazilian legislative elections except I changed some things in an attempt to see what Brazilian politics might look like if it were a little more, well, normal. I reduced the size of the Chamber of Deputies to a more satisfying 500 and reapportioned the seats among federative units in a way...

With talk of enlarging the Dutch lower house, I thought I'd see at what that might look like in combination with provincial constituencies. Here's the most recent election using a Danish-inspired electoral system with 185 seats apportioned among thirteen constituencies, as well as 40 nationwide...

Ah yes, I did use electorate. When I then apportion seats using the largest remainder method and calculate the seat distributions using d'Hondt, I get the following: VVD: 43 seats (+9) D66: 28 seats (+4) PVV: 19 seats (+2) CDA: 19 seats (+4) PvdA: 10 seats (+1) SP: 8 seats (+1) GL: 7 seats (-1)...

Very nice. How did you calculate the apportionment among provinces and the seat distribution per province? When I try to reproduce it, I arrive at slightly different results.

The Hague's 82 councillors are elected through open party list PR, with the city's twelve boroughs serving as constituencies, ranging in size from four to thirteen seats. Few seats changed hands in the 2022 City Council election. The local populist party Heart for The Hague remain the largest...

And now for a city that only ever appears in international media in relation to war criminals. This is the result of last week's municipal election in The Hague by neighbourhood. I've previously posted the 2014 and 2018 results. The local populist party Heart for The Hague (HvDH) remained the...

Here's Wales, with constituencies based on (groups of) preserved counties. Labour: 18 (–4) Conservative: 16 (+2) Plaid Cymru: 3 (–1) Brexit: 2 (+2) LibDem: 1 (+1)

I wasn't sure about how to carve Scotland, Wales and NI up into multi-seat constituencies since their constituencies aren't neatly grouped in ideally-sized counties as those in England are.

If England used party-list PR to elect its members to the House of Commons, with ceremonial counties serving as multi-seat constituencies (except for the Isle of Wight which only elects a single member). I used the D'Hondt method of seat distribution, with a 5% threshold on the constituency...

The Lithuanian Seimas is elected using parallel voting (like Italy), while South Korea has both compensatory and parallel PR seats, so technically it's a combination of MMP and parallel voting. I really like the map though.

I think it's safe to say voters may have possibly had some reservations.