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Thursday, July 24, 2003
Experts call for new Holyrood vote system ELECTION experts are calling for a new voting system for the Scottish Parliament.
The Electoral Reform Society claims Labour and the Liberal Democrats both won more than their fair share of seats in this year’s elections.
They want a change to a system which they say would link each party’s seats more closely to the votes it won.
And if applied to the May 1 poll, their proposed alternative would probably have left Labour and the Liberal Democrats without enough seats to form a coalition unless they involved a third party...
The SNP would have won an extra two seats, taking them to 29; the Tories would have had one more, giving them 19; the Scottish Socialists would have had eight instead of six; and the Greens would have had eight instead of seven; but there would have been one less independent. Edinburgh Evening News
