Posts by sean mahoney
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Legal Beagle: The Northland by-election;…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
I don't think they need to stand 130 candidates or even that the greens need to stand any. I think the Greens in 2002 and 2005 only ran candidates to ensure there was momentum to get the vote out ..they don't try and "win"them so to speak..
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Legal Beagle: The Northland by-election;…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
No but it highlights a serious issue which is closed lists and electorates and people being on each throws up some oddities. Auckland central in the last(possibly 2 ) elections has had 3 candidates all of whom are MPs after the election, its actually a potential democratic deficit in that there could be more list MPs based in certain parts of the country than others and many List MPs do operate strong constituency and regional bases.
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Legal Beagle: The Northland by-election;…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
" worthy " of my logic...Oh I get it..my logic isn't as good as yours..i bow to your undoubted wisdom on all things ...so lets see where Little chooses to stand next time. I imagine the elbow might come out as the tv images of him losing the electorate seat wont be what he will want on election night. Voters don't get a choice over list rankings ( in some systems they do ) so the ability to get certain ones in and out on the list is highly problematic...but then again I have an unworthy logic !
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Highlights a couple of the unplanned consequences of the current system, People should either be list candidates or electorate candidates. At present many candidates ( including Andrew Little ) were rejected at the polls but still in Parliament. There may be a good reason they are rejected yet this gets wiped out.
By-Elections have been pretty pointless and pedestrian under MMP. Will Northland be different ? Probably not but it might be more fun to watch.