Isn’t a two round system more accurately described as first one election, then a second election with only the top two candidates if no one gets more than 50%?
Then Melanchon would have been in the second round. Really it works like this
if no candidate secures an absolute majority (including blank and void ballots) of votes in the first round, a second round is held two weeks later between the two candidates who received the most votes.
There is also the parrainage system. You can be disqualified from running if you are not popular enough among sitting politicians.
It does have the feature when people have to vote strategically. So it’s easy for politicians or the media to manipulate voters with self-fulfilling prophesies.
At the end, it’s impossible to know who would have been the popular candidate, because everyone was voting strategically.
First Past the Post is tons of fun.
France doesn’t use First Past the Post though, which is why they had such diverse candidates last election.
They use a Two round system, where they hold multiple elections removing the lowest scoring candidates until one candidate has >50% of the votes
While in this case it clearly failed, it is much better than whatever is going on in the US
Isn’t a two round system more accurately described as first one election, then a second election with only the top two candidates if no one gets more than 50%?
Any candidate who gets above 12.5% of the vote goes on to the next elections. Apologies, my original explanation was a bit poor and omitted that
Then Melanchon would have been in the second round. Really it works like this
There is also the parrainage system. You can be disqualified from running if you are not popular enough among sitting politicians.
What you described would be much more democratic.
Ah, good to know.
It does have the feature when people have to vote strategically. So it’s easy for politicians or the media to manipulate voters with self-fulfilling prophesies.
At the end, it’s impossible to know who would have been the popular candidate, because everyone was voting strategically.