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Title: | Lesotho 2002: Africa's First MMP Elections |
Author: | Elklit, Jørgen |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Elections |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 1-10 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Lesotho |
Subjects: | elections 2002 electoral systems Politics and Government |
Abstract: | On 25 May 2002 Lesotho became the first African country to test the mixed member proportional (MMP) electoral model in a parliamentary election. The MMP electoral system links the allocation of parliamentary seats in a two-tier system through a compensatory linkage mechanism, whereby some sort of overall proportionaltiy is aimed at, while at the same time a considerable share of the parliamentary seats are (still) returned from (plurality/majority) elections in single-member constituencies. MMP performed well, as the level of disproportionality between vote and seat shares declined dramatically compared to previous elections. The level of disproportionality would have been even lower, however, had it not been for some of the decisions taken with respect to the number of seats in two categories: the surplus seats and the electoral threshold. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |