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PR-STV, or not PR-STV?

PR-STV, or not PR-STV?. That is the Question. Birth of PR – Who’s the Daddy?. The concept of transferable voting was first proposed by Thomas Wright Hill in 1821 .

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PR-STV, or not PR-STV?

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  1. PR-STV, or not PR-STV? That is the Question

  2. Birth of PR – Who’s the Daddy? The concept of transferable voting was first proposed by Thomas Wright Hill in 1821. Carl Andrae and Thomas Hare independently created the system of Proportional Representation by means of the transferable vote in 1855 and 1857, respectively.

  3. Birth of Irish PR The Proportional Representation society of Ireland was formed in 1911, shortly after a public lecture on the merits of PR-STV given by Lord Courtney. It took place in the Antient Concert Rooms, now the Academy Cinema on Pearse Street. It’s most noted member being Arthur Griffith, founder of Sinn Féin.

  4. Birth of Irish PR Arthur Griffith: “Proportional Representation secures that minorities shall be represented in proportion to their strength. It is the one just system of election under democratic government”. 25th February, 1911

  5. Sligo – ahead of It’s time The first application of Proportional Representation in Ireland was made in the Sligo town council elections in January, 1919. “Proportional representation has given Sligo a model Council. There is no reason why it should not be equally successful in Dublin and other cities and towns in Ireland.” Irish Independent, 20th January, 1919.

  6. Mystic Dev? As president of the Executive Council (Taoiseach) Eamonn DeValera once made a ‘prophecy with regret’ that one day “there would arise in the country a movement to get rid of Proportional Representation and go back to single-member constituency” December 2nd 1937

  7. Fianna Fáil or Fianna Fail? Replacing PR-STV with the single-member plurality system has been rejected at referendums in 1959 and 1968, both under Fianna Fáil governments.

  8. Find out what it means to me R.S.V.P… At the first meeting of the Dáil on the 21st January 1919, all but one Unionist had ignored their invitations to attend. Sir Robert Woods was the only one to make a formal refusal, a member for the Trinity College constituency.

  9. County Trinity Trinity College originally formed an electoral constituency, electing four deputies to Dáil Éireann. However this was reduced to three seats after the electoral act(1923), and eventually abolished in 1936 with the Electoral (University Constituency) Act (1936).

  10. Landslide? In the 1921 election for the Parliament of Southern Ireland, (used by Sinn Féin as the second Dáil election), Of 128 seats, only 4 were filled by unionists, all from the Trinity College constituency.

  11. Anybody Home? At the first session of the ‘Parliament of Southern Ireland’ (June 1921) only the four Trinity College representatives turned up!

  12. Remember PR-STV is never gonna… • Give you up • Let you down • Run around and desert you • Never gonna… • Make you cry • Say goodbye • Tell a lie and hurt you

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