Advantage #1
Proportional Representation System is better for our democracy because it can allow smaller parties to participate in the government. Here is another example with a greater number of parties C, D and E being small parties.
Let’s assume that the parties gain the votes shown in columns 1 and 2. As you can see in columns 3 and 4, there is no one party that has obtained the majority of 16 votes. So what happens in this case? The same thing we explained in example 2. The parties will now have to form a Ruling Coalition among themselves.
For example, A could form a collation with C giving them 17 seats. Alternatively, B which is another established party could form a Ruling Coalition with the smaller parties, C and D or C and E.
Think about how much more this can benefit the country. Under the first-past-the-post-system, one party wins the government and as you know, much largesse is farmed out to ‘party faithfuls” because one party controls all the ministries and access to finance. This is where the corruption, with which we are all too familiar, begins.
In contrast, under a Proportional Representation System, in the process of forming a Ruling Coalition, the parties have to negotiate over which coalition member gets which ministry. What this means is that no one party will get all the ministries and while that does not make it a perfect system, it certainly is a great improvement on the current biased and skewed system.