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Archive 1

Archive 2

Proposing a comprehensive update

I plan to make a number of changes to this template to address the following issues:

Limited voting and Single non-transferable vote are misclassified as Simple majoritarianism.

Plurality-at-large, General ticket, and Preferential block voting are misclassified as Mixed-member systems.

The "Mixed-member" category should be "Mixed systems", consistent with the Electoral systems article.

Before renaming the "Mixed-member" category, I feel that the Mixed-Member Systems article should be renamed "Mixed electoral systems" and edited accordingly.

Once the above changes are done, there are a number of systems in the template that should be grouped differently. For example, I believe Coombs' method can be treated as a variant of Instant-runoff (alternative vote), and that the Oklahoma primary electoral system is a variant of Bucklin voting. On the other hand, Scorporo, Av+, and Parallel voting should not be listed as variants of the Additional member system. There are also a few systems such as biproportional apportionment that deserve to be added. Finally, I would do some rearranging to remove awkward terms and position the most prominent systems near the top of their respective categories.

The changes I'm proposing will result in the following structure:

Plurality/majoritarian
    * Plurality
        ** First-past-the-post
        ** Single non-transferable vote
        ** Limited voting
        ** Plurality-at-large (block voting)
        ** General ticket
    ----
    * Multi-round voting
        ** Two-round
        ** Exhaustive ballot
    ----
    * Ranked/preferential systems
        ** Instant-runoff (alternative vote)
            *** Contingent vote
            *** Coombs' method
        ** Condorcet methods (Copeland's, Dodgson's, Kemeny-Young, Minimax, Nanson's, Ranked pairs, Schulze)
        ** Borda count
        ** Bucklin voting
            *** Oklahoma primary electoral system
        ** Preferential block voting
    ----
    * Cardinal/graded systems
        ** Range voting
        ** Approval voting
        ** Multi-winner approval voting (Proportional, Sequential proportional, Satisfaction)
        ** Majority judgment
Proportional representation
    * Party-list (Open lists, Closed lists, Local lists)
        ** Highest averages (D'Hondt, Sainte-Laguë, Huntington-Hill)
        ** Largest remainder (Hare, Droop, Imperiali, Hagenbach-Bischoff)
    * Single transferable vote (CPO-STV, Gregory, Schulze STV, Wright)
    * Biproportional apportionment
        ** Fair majority voting
Mixed systems
    * Mixed member proportional
        ** Additional member system
    * Parallel voting (Mixed member majoritarian)
    * Scorporo
    * Majority bonus
    * Alternative vote plus
    * Dual member proportional
Other systems & related theory
    * Cumulative voting
    * Binomial voting
    * Proxy voting
        ** Delegated voting
    * Random selection (Sortition, Random ballot)
    ----
    * Comparison of electoral systems
    * Social choice theory
        ** Arrow's theorem
        ** Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem
    * Public choice theory

Rhys Goldstein (talk) 01:52, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

The update has been made (see this edit). There is now a new article: Mixed electoral system. The "Mixed-Member Systems" article has been moved back to its original name: Semi-proportional representation. Rhys Goldstein (talk) 16:08, 24 October 2017 (UTC)