World Parliament Elections - Collaborative Project

[LNSS]

A couple years ago, there was a "World Electoral College" collaboration, this is a similar concept.

The world has united, and soon there will be parliamentary elections, so a committee has been assigned to draw parliamentary constituencies of roughly equal population. Each constituency will elect one MP to the world parliament.

The first thing the committee has been tasked with, is to decide how many people each MP would represent. Assuming a world population of 8 billion, if there are 200 MPs each would represent 40 million people each, 400 MPs would represent 20 million each, and so on.

Each constituency should also make sense. i.e. it would not do to have Spain and Morocco represented by a single MP.

So that's it. I linked to the map above. If we do decide for 200 MPs, Canada and California each would have 1 MP for example, though 200 seems a bit low for a planetary legislature.

 

[KaiserEmu]

There was this:

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/world-parliament-constituencies.450769/

Seems pretty similar to what you’re doing.

 

[TimTurner]

I think parallel voting would make for a cool experiment. You could split the continents into some PR blocks.

 

[LNSS]

I think parallel voting would make for a cool experiment. You could split the continents into some PR blocks.
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I'm not familiar with paralllel voting. How would that work? Like an upper house?

There was this:

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/world-parliament-constituencies.450769/

Seems pretty similar to what you’re doing.

That's great! No idea it existed. We can use their completed map.

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Welcome to the 2018 World Parliament Elections. Here's the map of the Earth's constituencies, 650 MPs will be elected with each representing about 11.6 million people.

But before we move to the actual results, we should figure out the parties. There should be healthy amount of them. This is some I have in mind, feel free to add more:


Communist Party of China
Xi Jingping
The largest party in the world pre-unification would not be left out! The CPC is very strong in China, and with the number of Chinese constituencies in the World Parliament, they could end up with a significant amount of seats.

Russia National Front
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
The Russian National Front strongly denounces Unification and wishes for Russia to leave the United Earth Federation.

Fifth International
Jeremy Corbyn, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
A progressive-socialist alliance which is the successor to several progressive international alliances, including the Foro de Sao Paulo and the left wing of the Socialist International. Several Trotskyst organizations have also joined the Fifth International.

Liberal Democrats
Barack Obama, Angela Merkel
A center-right coalition with a strong christian democrat wing.

 

[The British Empire]

I personally believe that the CPC should merge with the other communist parties, and the Fifth International should have some center-left parties too. The Russian National Front should stay the same, and I also think that there should be a Far-Right party, a Green party, a few Unionists and Nationalists in Ireland, and an Islamist party.

 

[LNSS]

Edited the leaders of the parties, they're now supposed to be important members rather than the leaders, as the leadership would depend on the outcome of the elections.

The Fifth International is supposed to be to the left of Social Democrats but not outright Communists. Also I don't think the CPC would bow down to any other party considering their power.

About far-right parties, how would they work? They wouldn't be nationalists, but maybe a panhuman party with proposals like the militarization of space and the expansion of humanity to the stars?

Liberal Republicans
Jeb Bush, Stephen Harper
A right-wing party with strong social conservative and pro market values.

 

[TimTurner]

There also needs to be a Green Party somewhere, a left-liberal party, and a social democratic party.

 

[The British Empire]

Also I don't think the CPC would bow down to any other party considering their power.

I just thought that the CPC would also eat up the communist parties in Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, and Laos too.

 

[Hominid]

I don't really see Jeb Bush being an MP in this world.

 

[Allan Nonymous]

I just made a map for a possible scenario

"The results of the 1st World Congress election were unprecedented. We saw a "Blue Wave" as the Democratic Liberal Party swept constituencies across the globe. They picked up many constituencies they were heavily disfavored in, including Siberia. They also showed strong results in China. Xi Jinping failed to take his Beijing based seat was one of the most surprising moments of the election. We also saw a surprise victories by the Republican Conservative Party defeating the former president of Eritrea (who ran on the Progress ticket)." It looks likely that the Democratic Social Party will be the ones making the coalition, probably with SoLef and the Democratic Centrists. -New York Times Nov. 6 2018 from the article "The First World Elections Just Happened: What You Need to Know"