The British and Slovak Electoral Systems

The public resource is a basic blow of a democratic country. However, the elections protest in separately country. The linked Kingdom is divided into electoral regions called constituencies and each single elects wholeness representative into the stand of leafy vegetable. In Slovakia, in that location is a single electoral region, with an only titular kind of division. After the elections an boilersuit average is made to detect the final result. In Britain, the large number right to vote for individual representatives of their constituency, in Slovakia, we basically vote for parties instead, non representatives of ones area, because the order of preferred representatives of each party is specified by the party itself and made public, well up before the elections. This list is usually not created on the foot of regions or areas.\nThe elections into the House of Commons are called in the joined Kingdom general elections. each(prenominal) constituency sends one repre sentative into the House of Commons, which is the one that gained the highest number of votes (first-past-the-post system). to each one voter can vote for only one candidate. in that location are now 646 representatives in the House of Commons, so equally, there are 646 constituencies. The number was rifle amended for the election in May 2005, from the previous 659, because of authentic boundary reviews in Scotland, which bring d take in the number of the seats held by Scotland by 13. The reason was that Englands commonwealth is growing more apace than Scotlands. Concerning the division, we find 18 constituencies in Northern Ireland, 59 in Scotland, 40 in Wales and 529 in England. The boundaries of the constituencies are determined by the so called Boundary Commission. Theres one commission for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, shortly established under the parliamentary Constituencies Act from 1986. Each constituency has its own Boundary Committee which submits to the electoral Commission recommendations for a revolutionary redistribution, if necessary. The...