Independent journalist Chantelle Baker has further highlighted strategic voting under MMP, and how splitting party and electorate votes could shape the make-up of Parliament.
Baker advocated a strategy where voters use their electorate vote for a candidate from one party, while giving their party vote to another. She said this would help win more seats for one party, while shifting party votes to another, potentially creating an overhang.
An overhang occurs when a party wins more electorate seats than its share of the party vote, causing Parliament to expand. “That can be a deciding factor between a left or right government,” Baker said.
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Yes left or right cheek of the same globalist backside, ruining our future.
I wish there was a way to vote for an underhang to get rid of all of the unelected list MP blodgers.
A over-hang does eliminate the list MP’s, a under-hang would increase the number of list MP’s.
Prefer the gallows strategy.
Never had an overhang. Had plenty of hangovers though.
Drink enough for long enough and you’ll get an overhang.
And a hangover.
Probably the best glaring example photo of a dirty disgusting serpent-pit that could possibly be shown..
Quite a relief that the snakes inhabiting the foul interior weren’t zoomed-in on closeup. Uncontrollable retching and spewing
would’ve been the result if so.. Thanks photographer for sparing us that..
If NZF and ACT voters party voted their own party and electorate voted for National, this would create a over-hang.
And if National voters voted for their electoral candidate and party voted for National, there party vote would be wasted because there was a overhang.
Therefore National voters should vote for their electoral candidate and create the over-hang for their party and then vote for NZF or ACT to increase the size of the list seats for NZF and Act and subsequently the size of the Right Block.
So peoples, tell your National voter friends that this strategy requires their support for National to return to power.
100 % correct. Proves how deceptive the system is.
NZF/ACT supporters should support their electorate Nat candidate. Especially where Labour/Green hold a narrow margin.
The left are banking on the stupidity of the National party voter.
If National win 43 electorates and get 35% of the party vote, they win 0 list MPs.
National supporters need to wise up and statiegically party vote for Act/NZF.