It has been a while since my last post, and I was wondering what kind of content I can provide for my blog. At first my ambition was to put out high quality content on a regular basis. The goal was to analyze elections and electoral systems in great detail. But there comes the time when one has to f...

On October the 15th in 2017 the conservative Austrian People’s Party won the national election with 31.47 percent of the popular vote. Thereby outperforming the Social Democratic Party of Austria after more than a decade scoring second place. As a consequence the People’s Party was able to reclaim t...

Despite receiving 7.4 percent of the votes for the Liberal Party, the UK’s electoral system is responsible for awarding them only 1.8 percent of the seats. For continental Europeans the United Kingdom’s electoral system seems to have some odd characteristics. In general, candidates win their constit...