14.3% of votes, five seats. Why did fewer national votes produce more local victories for another party?
02 / Israel 2022
The line that matters.
150,793 valid votes and no seats. Separate ballot validity, qualification and seat allocation.
03 / Liberia 2023
A second decision.
The October leader lost in November. Compare a plurality standard with a fresh majority runoff.
04 / New Zealand 2020
Put the rules together.
Apply the MMP rule: local wins and a national threshold open different routes to representation.
Choose your way in
Make the rules do some work.
Just exploring makes written explanations optional. For class requires the briefs and final comparison. Both keep the same evidence checks, lab operations and political choices. Switch inside the game without losing your notes; class mode reopens any briefs missing written work.
Allow about 75 minutes, or divide into two sessions.
This is a provisional teaching plan. Actual learner timing and learning effects need a human pilot. A calculator, definitions and worked support help you engage with the same intellectual task.
Explain a mechanism, use a figure with the correct unit and denominator, name what the model holds fixed and defend a trade-off. The automatic checks cover bounded rule and numerical questions. Written reasoning needs human assessment.
The election archive is open
Follow the evidence.
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Historical outcomes remain fixed. The UK benchmark does not allocate whole seats, Israel’s lab models qualification, Liberia’s runoff uses a new ballot and New Zealand’s lab does not recompute every alternative seat total. A numerical result is a starting point for an argument.
