evaluate the effectiveness of an electoral system in providing

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AMS - Reduce gap between vote % and seat %

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• AMS voting system used in scotland
• The AMS has a regional list part of the vote and this is a proportional system.
• This means that parties get a more fair amount of seats based on the votes they receive compared to fptp

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• AMS much more fair and representative than fptp
• However in the 2016 election the SNP were penalised in the regional list due to their success in the constituency paper and therefore even though they received over 200,000 more votes they lost seats.
• Therefore overall much more representative than fptp however the example of the snap in the 2016 election shows not fully fair.

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Smaller parties better represented with AMS

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• Ams provides fairer representation for smaller parties as they don’t have enough votes to win any given constituency but collectively they do.
• The greens benefited from this winning 6 seats.

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+Smaller parties can win seats in parliament as shown by greens

• However green sonly party to do so
• Not a sense of rainbow parliament anymore, not completely fair or representative.

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It is said to give Better representation for women and ethnic minorities

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• Many more female MSPs than Mps

- However there are less than 5 ethnic minority msps and over 41 ethnic minority mps

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• AMS is fairer as elects more female msps
• However less from ethnic minorities
• Overall both parliaments under represent women and ethnic minorities

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A coalition is usually formed under AMS

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• produced a labour and lib den coalition between 1999 and 2007
• However did not in 2011

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• The labour/lib-dem coalition showed that the majority of voters were being represented
• However no one votes for a coalition
• Therefore overall can be argued both ways as it can be said to be more proportional but on the other hand it is giving a result that no one is happy with