Talk:Electoral threshold/Archive 1

NPOV
A somewhat controversial (and numerically inaccurate) paragraph about Turkey seems to have been inserted into the election thresholds page. I added to it fixing the figure from elsewhere in the wiki. The page probably needs a rewrite or re-structuring but I figured to do so would be inflammatory so I refrained from doing it.

Rewrote that paragraph to make a more general statement regarding the side effects of election thresholds. Also changed the direct normative statements to more descriptive statements of the views previously expressed in the article. I feel the article now conforms to NPOV. Esthurin 00:52, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Incoherent sentences removed
I removed some sentences at the end which were impossible to understand because they were so incoherently written. I would have re-phrased them if I had been able to understand exactly what the writer was trying to say. (Barend 20:57, 2 January 2006 (UTC))

Subtractive threshold
Are there any systems where the threshold value is subtracted from all parties shares of the voting? I could see scenarios where this would be a useful method, in order to allow proportionality while further discouraging splintering and deadlock.

For an example, Party A wins 45% (450k votes), B wins 30% (300k votes), and C wins 15% (150k votes), with all other parties falling below a threshold of 10%. Then each party's first 10% of the votes (in this case 100k) is ignored when calculating number of seats. Thus, in this example, for 100 seats party A would get 58 seats, B would get 33 seats, and C would get 9 seats. --Xyzzyva (talk) 03:54, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Switzerland
Switzerland is missing in both the world map and the country list. Please add Switzerland to them (I don't know how high their threshold is). --TheHeroWolf (talk) 21:32, 21 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I've added Switzerland for everybody. Greetings --212.186.0.108 (talk) 11:47, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

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