Fruits and Votes

So many elections… Among the more interesting recent elections would be that of Serbia on 25 October.

As this posts, polls are about to close in Israel’s general election.

It seemed implausible (see first round), but it looks like Lula may have won.

On 24 October, voters in British Columbia have their general election.

The Blue & White (Kahol Lavan) party list, headed by Benny Gantz, has formally withdrawn from the election.

In this November’s election, Californians are presented with a proposed state constitutional amendment to reform the process of recalling and replacing elected officeholders.

Here is one for the files.

On 4 October, Brazil held the first round of its presidential election, along with the election of its Chamber of Deputies and two thirds of the federal Senators (and also governors and assemblies of the states).

Quebec has just held its National Assembly (provincial parliament) general election.

There now remains a month–just under a month, actually–till the Israeli general election, which is set for 27 October.

As of writing, each MLB team has either three or four games remaining on the regular season schedule.

The politics of British Columbia continue to be interesting, and the churn on the right side of the political spectrum (which I wrote about in connection with the 2024 election) continues to be mind-blowing.

The High Court of Israel today ruled that parties could not use real-time voter data on election day.

To spoil the answer, it seems it could be questionable.

Who could have predicted?

Apologies to Jeff S.

In the German state of Saxony-Anhalt on 6 September, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) won a strong plurality of votes and seats in the state parliament.

The Israeli method of seat allocation is essentially D’Hondt divisors for all lists that clear the threshold (currently 3.25% of votes).

From Tal Schneider in the Times of Israel: Gadi Eisenkot lays groundwork for a minority government, if necessary, to oust Netanyahu.

Note: The following post is, in its entirety, by a frequent commenter who goes by the handle, voterguy.

I am pleased to announce the publication of this volume, in which there is a chapter from my NIFA-funded project.

On the MIT Election Data Science Lab webpage, Jesse Clark has a summary of some recent research on the effects of ranked-choice voting in Maine.

The blog, Another Spectrum, has been running a series of posts in early August about the mixed-member proportional (MMP) electoral system in New Zealand.

The OSCE report [PDF] on the 2017 election in Albania says “Seats are distributed according to a combination of d’Hondt [sic] and Sainte-Laguë methods.”

This post is authored by Leonardo Carella, not by me.

When political scientists or election reform activists (at least in Anglo countries) think about electoral systems that they argue have good normative outcomes, the debate often comes down to either open-list proportional representation (OLPR) or mixed-me…