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Following the #Polish #election this evening. A weird (to me) detail I have noticed is that votes from Poles living abroad are all assigned to the Warsaw constituency.
I'm not sure I have ever seen an arrangement like that before, though may simply be my ignorance. Aren't overseas voters generally assigned to either their 'home' constituency, or an overseas constituency? Anyone have a similar example from elsewhere?
@PMKeeling @politicalscience France has eleven (single-member) constituencies designated to ex-pats, each representing a different part of the world. But this is a relatively new arrangement, first used for the 2012 parliamentary elections.
@rainbowmurray @politicalscience
I really liked this idea when I first saw it, there's something quite satisfying about it.
@PMKeeling @politicalscience not necessarily: in the Czech Republic they are randomly allocated to one of the 14 regional electoral districts.
@DrSeanHanley
That's a good idea, at least better than the Polish method, I think.
@PMKeeling @politicalscience I think every nation has its idiosyncrasies… For The Netherlands, eg, there is no district-based parliamentary constituency. You vote for the national parliament, expat or not. For the Senate, though (composed of provincial electorates) the situation was different. This year for the first time we could vote for a virtual ‘expat province’…!
Interesting, thanks. Before that did expats not have a Senate vote at all?
@PMKeeling @politicalscience Can’t really recall… Don’t think so.