The (almost really) Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

The Principles of Parliamentary Representation (Advertisment)

Source: St. James’s Gazette, December 10, 1884, and other issues and other papers that month

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By Charles L. Dodgson, M.A., Student, and late Mathematical Lecturer of Christ Church, Oxford.

The writer claims to have proved (1) That to give each Elector as many votes as his District returns Members, e. g., in “single-member” Districts, entails the greates possible injustice, by leaving nearly half the Electorate without any political weight. (2) That Districts should return 3 or more Members each. (3) That each Elector should give one vote only. (The method here suggested for transferring surplus votes, is far more simple and equitable than that of making each Elector arrange a list of Candidates.) The writer claims, for his system of Representation, that it is absolutely simple and would secure, in the House, an almost exact expression of national opinion.

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