Talk:2016 South Korean legislative election

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Mathematical impossibility[edit]

There are many districts where the Saenuri party leads the vote count but gets much less in number of seats. This is certainly possible although generally unlikely. However, in the single seat constituency of Sejong, Saenuri gets the most votes but the seat goes to an independent instead. Similarly, in Jeju, which has three seats, Saenuri gets the most number of votes but fails to get even one of those three seats, with all three seats going to Minjoo which got 5.4% less votes. How is this even possible, mathematically speaking? The issue of how a party that gets the most votes gets less seats in a first past the post system is another issue, this is just about the mathematically impossible cases in this election. I think others who see these seat distribution patterns will be as confused as I am right now, so I suggest expanding the electoral system section to address this, or at least provide more internal links to allow readers to find for themselves how this is possible. Ingebot (talk) 04:38, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Ingebot: This is due to split ballots. As explained earlier in the article, there is a constituency vote and a party list vote. These are separate, so people can vote for one party in the constituency, and another party on the party list, which is called a split ballot. This election was unusual for the high number of split ballots, particularly in terms of people voting for the Minjoo Party in their constituency and the People's Party on the list—this could be mentioned in the article but I'd need to find a source stating as much. The table lists constituencies won on the left and party list vote % on the right for each party, hence the explanatory note: The table below lists seat totals and party list vote percentage in each region. Maybe this could be clearer though, what do you think? —Nizolan ^(talk) 05:32, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I found a source, and added more detail in the section. —Nizolan ^(talk) 05:43, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Constituency % under "Results by Region"?[edit]

This is related to the discussion above - it might be clearer to put the Constituency Vote % in addition to the PR vote %, since the vast majority of seats are allocated according to the first method, meaning it's easier to conclude, "Oh, Minjoo won because they had narrow leads in Seoul and Gyeongggi but was wiped out elsewhere", for example. One might even have the constituency % replace the PR % - there is a separate PR section in the table, after all. Thoughts? Chuborno (talk) 04:00, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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