Politics in the Animal Kingdom: Single Transferable Vote

All the video is true, except for the last part where the government decides to switch to STV

This is just tiger propaganda, the current system works completely, and the monkeys always have the best interests of the whole jungle in mind.

"Council is full of monkeys." Thats actually very realistic

I see that Turtle’s extremism has been eliminated from the jungle.

The monkeys know full well this would be better for us. But it wouldn't be better for them, and right now they're in charge.

The problem is when the council has to say yes to the changing of the vote system.

Quick question: In the White Tiger scenario, how do you decide which citizens' votes are the 'extra' ones? Realistically, not all of White Tiger voters would have the same second choice, so which votes you're counting matters. The solution I can think of would be to add partial votes of everyone's second choice. 32/65 of White Tiger's votes are extra, so every White Tiger voter's second choice gets 32/65 (about half) of a vote. What would actually happen though?

If you're wondering why this isn't immediately implemented in [insert election here], it's because it benefits the people, not politicians. Politicians make the election rules.

I would vote for anyone named White Tiger.

They could've just fought to the death smh.

The UK is in desperate need of a system like this.

This is the election system we have in the Republic of Ireland 🇮🇪

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It's ridiculous that this isn't common practice in western industrial nations already. The only reason you'd be against ranked voting is a desire to hold power as opposed to designing the system for maximum democracy.

It just looks so clean, intuitive and perfect tbh. Is there a hidden flaw or something? Im confused

Just recently, a couple kids from my school got our school to use STV voting for our student government elections, as far as I know it went great.

Of course, in the real world the ones making the rules would be the monkeys, and they care about their fellow monkeys, not the populace as a whole. So they keep the old system.

That is precisely the Australian system, except subsequent numbers like 2, 3, 4 don't hold the same unit value as 1. It's complex but the kangaroo's count the votes anyway.

Ireland and Malta are currently the only countries to use STV for all National elections. One interesting difference is how both countries deal with a seat being vacated in the course of a parliamentary session (eg when a politician resigns or dies in office). In Ireland, a fresh election is held only in the constituencies with an empty seat, usually with only 1 seat on offer (normally there would be 3 - 5 seats per constituency). These often take place on the same day as referendums so can happen months after the seat becomes empty. As far as I'm aware in Malta, the person who lost the election but who would have been next in line for a seat automatically gets elected. In other words, a candidate that comes in 5th where only 4 seats were available in the previous election.