Nomination Strategies in the Irish STV System: The Dail Elections of 1969, 1973 and 1977
- 1 July 1979
- journal article
- other
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in British Journal of Political Science
- Vol. 9 (3) , 362-369
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123400001836
Abstract
In an innovative and carefully argued article (‘The Used Vote and Electoral Outcomes: The Irish General Election of 1973’, this Journal, V (1975), 363–83) on the Irish Single Transferable Vote (STV) system in the 1969 and 1973 Dail elections, A. S. Cohan, R. D. McKinlay and Anthony Mughan state a proposition that requires further analysis. They argue that ‘the optimal number of candidates for a party is equal to the largest number of seats that the party might hope to win’ in a constituency, instead of the more common practice of nominating a larger number of candidates. The reasoning behind this proposition is that the nomination of fewer candidates means a greater concentration of the party's vote on these candidates and hence fewer vote transfers and less potential wastage of votes.Keywords
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