The dirty games being played by the elected representatives of the nation has been making extensive damage to the country and the treasury. Marriages between parties before and after election have been the way to get in to power making an unstable government at state level as well as at the centre. To alienate such a situation it is high time to think about re-writing the rules for ascertaining the majority of a party after election. What I would, as an individual feel is that : It should be the basis of Maximum number of votes gained by a party instead of maximum number of seats won for ascertaining the majority/people%u2019s verdict: for instance: there are total 10 seats and 3 parties are contesting: total votes polled 7500 party: A wins 4 seats ... total votes 1700 party: B wins 3 seats ... total votes 2100 party: C wins 3 seats ... total votes 3700 In the present scenario Party A would tie up with Party B (3800 votes and 7 seats) to form the government on power sharing basis (Party C will be in opposition)...after two years there is a difference of opinion between A and B and B withdraws support bringing a stalemate. Party C with B forming the government (party A in opposition)%u2026after 1 year, the same story repeats, when B withdraws support%u2026
RE:a permanent resolution
by Chanakya on Oct 08, 2007 12:26 PM Permalink
The amendment should be such that under the above circumstances, since Party C has gained more than 50% of the total votes polled, they should be treated as a majority and given the permission to form the government with the following calculation of seats:
7500 votes for 10 seats = 750 votes per seats: Party-A : 1700 /750 = 2.26 say 2 Party-B : 2100/750 = 2.80 say 3 Party-C : 3700/750 = 4.90 say 5
This given the party C 5 seats though they have won 3 seats with 3700 votes. Even though Party A won 4 seats, two seats gets reduced due to the lesser number of votes polled.
(one more way of giving benefit of more seats to the party who gets the maximum votes would be to take a total number of votes of the constituencies verses the percentage of total number of votes polled versus the total number of votes gained out of the total number of votes polled).
