On 10/05/2011 09:06, Mark wrote:
On Mon, 09 May 2011 20:55:54 +0100, Old
wrote:

On 09/05/2011 09:22, Mark wrote:
On Fri, 06 May 2011 21:02:16 +0100, Old
wrote:

On 04/05/2011 21:17, dennis@home wrote:


"Old wrote in message
...

But AV will not necessarily find the candidate most people are happy
with.

Neither will FPTP.

Indeed but it does find the candidate the least folk are unhappy with.

Not at all. FPTP purely gives the candidate that the largest group of
people voted for. For all we know all the other electors could really
hate that candidate.

Using that argument even more electors would hate *any* of the other
candidates therefore FPTP finds the candidate least electors are unhappy
with.

I don't agree with that at all. All we know from FPTP is people's
first choice. If the elected MP gets less than 50% (which most do)
then all we can be sure of that most people don't want him/her.

We can be equally sure that even more people don't want any of the other
candidates.

QED.

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