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Nomination Strategies in the Irish STV System: The Dail Elections of 1969, 1973 and 1977

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  • Lijphart, Arend
  • Irwin, Galen A.

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In an innovative and carefully argued article (‘The Used Vote and Electoral Outcomes: The Irish General Election of 1973’, this Journal, V (1975), 363–83) on the Irish Single Transferable Vote (STV) system in the 1969 and 1973 Dail elections, A. S. Cohan, R. D. McKinlay and Anthony Mughan state a proposition that requires further analysis. They argue that ‘the optimal number of candidates for a party is equal to the largest number of seats that the party might hope to win’ in a constituency, instead of the more common practice of nominating a larger number of candidates. The reasoning behind this proposition is that the nomination of fewer candidates means a greater concentration of the party's vote on these candidates and hence fewer vote transfers and less potential wastage of votes.

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  • Lijphart, Arend & Irwin, Galen A., 1979. "Nomination Strategies in the Irish STV System: The Dail Elections of 1969, 1973 and 1977," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 9(3), pages 362-369, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:9:y:1979:i:03:p:362-369_00
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