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by bbrazil 2908 days ago
We've a STV system in Ireland, I'm not sure you'd classify our independents as centrist (by the Irish definition of centrist - by the US definition almost all our politicians are far left).

Overall the system works quite well, and the proportion of representatives a party has in parliament roughly aligns with first preference votes.

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In Ireland you have had enough time for parties to trend towards the biggest chunk of votes, which is what I’m labelling “centrist” though perhaps this is really “populist” :(

Naming things isn’t easy.