Can we make elections fairer?
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Can we make elections fairer?

2026-08-22
With the general election rapidly approaching and the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) voting system under scrutiny, is electoral reform back on the agenda? And what would replace MMP? A recent study by at the Universities of Cambridge and Copenhagen concluded that a perfectly fair election system is mathematically impossible. They proposed a new system called "geographically ranked guaranteed proportionality". Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics at Massey University, joins Jim to discuss.
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