POLL POSITIONING OP-ED: Electoral Reform – a multimember constituency model is the best option for South Africa

Each MMC would have between three and seven representatives, depending on population size. In the larger cities, like Cape Town, where there is a very large population, one would use the subregions as the MMC boundaries.

Thus, local voters would be represented in proportion to the local strength of their parties, with overall proportionality enabled through a compensatory list. To ensure a greater degree of accountability and local representation, 300 seats will be allocated to the MMCs, with 100 compensatory seats to ensure that “in general, proportional representation” is achieved.

This will certainly increase the level of accountability and can also be expected to increase the level of social cohesion, since voters in a particular MMC have something in common: the opportunity to electMPs, who might engage with the local voters and their various associations in defending the area’s interests in the legislature to a far greater extent than the current system allows for.

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