NEW BI-PROPORTIONAL METHODS FOR BULGARIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

摘要

A disadvantage of the existing bi–proportional system for the Bulgarian parliamentary elections is the large number of discordances (a party list with less votes gets more seats than a party list with more votes) in the seat distributions. Different schemes has been proposed to deal with this phenomenon. In this paper we propose two new methods: 1) augmentation of the electoral regions and 2) introduction of a new electoral region for accounting the votes cast abroad. In this way the number of discordances may be vastly reduced.