Arneb wrote:In this case, yes. But the Free Voters only got in because they won one constituency and, by a quirk of the elction law, now sit in parliament with a share of seats roughly equivalent to their 2,7% share of the List vote - which is the one that determines relative strength of parties in a parliament but leads into zero representation if your party stays below 5%.
Also, the constituency votes are pretty much useless for smaller parties, as these seats are decided American/British (if you forgive the word) style in a first-past-the-post manner, and you lose big if you come in third at 10 % in every constituency - the Free Voters being the one exception again.
So the system for state elections is similar, at least, to the federal then?