Talk:Closed list

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I think this page should list the countries and jurisdictions where this form of voting is used. E.g. Israel, South Africa, others.

Some other pages for the other systems already have this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.128.16.130 (talk) 14:16, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure if anyone noticed, but the last link in "List of locations with closed list proportional representation" is for Uruguay, but the linked source material is all for Ukraine. A cursory search shows Uruguay does us a closed list PR system for its lower house and should therefore be on the list, but that elections in the Ukraine use a mixed system of First Past the Post and Open List PR and thus shouldn't be on the list. I'm pretty sure the source links (numbered 1 - 4) should be deleted, but want to leave it up to someone with more knowledge of wiki etiquette, since I don't really know the rules that govern this sort of thing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.45.54.175 (talk) 19:20, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

List of locations incosistent

1. Is MMP with closed lists considered closed list PR? New Zealand is included in the list while Germany is excluded. Both countries use MMP with closed lists.
2. Does the election of MEPs count? Previously the UK was included (with a disclaimer) while other countries electing MEPs using closed list PR are not e.g. Germany, France and Spain. I think the elections to the European Parliament should be mentioned as a whole.
3. Should regional elections be mentioned? The corresponding collection of countries in Open list includes the German states Bavaria, Bremen and Hamburg. In contrast the German state Saarland uses pure closed list PR (and the remaining states use closed list MMP) which is not mentioned here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mathison K (talk • contribs) 17:05, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Wales and Scotland

I don't understand why Wales and Scotland have been included in this list. In the UK general elections, they are tied to the First-Past-the-Post, and in their own elections, they use the AMS PR system where you have a constituency MP and an additional MP. The way that 'closed system' has been defined seem to contradict this. 79.70.251.62 (talk) 19:59, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

Iceland and Norway

Iceland and Norway are sort of hard to pin down either as open or closed list. The rule in Iceland is that voters are allowed to make changes to the list, either rearranging candidates or striking names off the list completely. There is some complicated math that determines how many voters need to alter their ballots to have any effect but it is 25% at most. In practice this has happened exactly once since the current rules were established in 1999. Norway has the rule that 50% of the voters need to alter the ballot in the same way for it to have effect so clearly it's more closed than Iceland. Yet, we have Iceland marked as closed list on here and Norway as open list at that article. --Bjarki (talk) 17:16, 24 September 2021 (UTC)