Some key Upper house takeaways, (paraphrased from analysis)
Upper house quota is 2.63%, lower than NSW at 4.55%. This is due to there now being 37 members, compared to NSWs 21 members.
Greens vote share will likely be better represented, which will likely result in more seats, as with the Nationals bote share, likely resulting in less.
The six regions are gone, MLCs are eleceted to represent the entire State.
By electing the entire chanber as a single electorate, it doesn't rebalance malaportionment between rural and metro, the divide becomes irrelevant.
~Note: Watch out for table Seats won at WA Legislative Council elections, 1989-2021, that 20 is not the midpoint, number of seats is actually 34 then in 2008 goes up to 36.~
Gorgritch_Umie_Killa - 10mon
The exciting part, for me, is the Legislative Council changes.
These are huge and long lasting. They could and would only have been done with a large Labor majority, because conservative partys benefited from the comparable advantage higher proportional rural representation gave them, so were bever incentivised to rebalance the system.
This was a once in a lifetime chance Labor got to right an electoral wrong against metro voters. This also happens to align with Labors electoral chances, of course.
The Legislative Council changes seem a mature response to the fairness question that arose, they seem to have resisted the urge to politically favour themselves in an structural way.
It may favour major partys a little more, but the number of MLCs should offset that hurdle well.
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ziltoid101 @lemmy.world - 10mon
Can we please re-elect Wilson Tucker (the guy who accidentally won a seat with 98 votes while living in the US at the time) as an MLC? It'd be hilarious, and he's actually pretty solid policy too.
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Legislative Council
Some key Upper house takeaways, (paraphrased from analysis)
Upper house quota is 2.63%, lower than NSW at 4.55%. This is due to there now being 37 members, compared to NSWs 21 members.
Greens vote share will likely be better represented, which will likely result in more seats, as with the Nationals bote share, likely resulting in less.
The six regions are gone, MLCs are eleceted to represent the entire State.
By electing the entire chanber as a single electorate, it doesn't rebalance malaportionment between rural and metro, the divide becomes irrelevant.
~Note: Watch out for table Seats won at WA Legislative Council elections, 1989-2021, that 20 is not the midpoint, number of seats is actually 34 then in 2008 goes up to 36.~
The exciting part, for me, is the Legislative Council changes.
These are huge and long lasting. They could and would only have been done with a large Labor majority, because conservative partys benefited from the comparable advantage higher proportional rural representation gave them, so were bever incentivised to rebalance the system.
This was a once in a lifetime chance Labor got to right an electoral wrong against metro voters. This also happens to align with Labors electoral chances, of course.
The Legislative Council changes seem a mature response to the fairness question that arose, they seem to have resisted the urge to politically favour themselves in an structural way.
It may favour major partys a little more, but the number of MLCs should offset that hurdle well.
Can we please re-elect Wilson Tucker (the guy who accidentally won a seat with 98 votes while living in the US at the time) as an MLC? It'd be hilarious, and he's actually pretty solid policy too.