Scotland’s Parliament has always been better at representing the political makeup of Scotland than Westminster. But we can make it better.
The Scottish Parliament is made up of constituency MPs elected under First Past the Post, and regional ‘additional’ members that are supposed to even out the distortions of the constituency results. Yet the Holyrood system still tend to favour larger parties?
The additional members are allocated regionally, there are too many first past the post seats, and the d’Hondt method favours larger parties.
It’s clear that more can be done to finesse the way we elect our MSPs.
On 6 May 2021, the sixth set of elections took place for each of the devolved elected institutions that exist within the three nations of Great Britain.
How voters used Scotland’s Additional Member System in 2016