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For Drutman, US efforts to incorporate ranked-choice voting can have only a limited effect, and don’t necessarily change the core problem of politics in the country, as he sees it. The system still pushes towards two dominant parties, and avoids proportional representation at the district or state levels. In his view, the goal should be more parties, focused on giving more voters a voice and on building cross-party coalitions, instead of experiments with ranked-choice voting to elect particular candidates. But he does see a positive note from these experiments: “There’s definitely interest in electoral reform.”

The ruling coalition in Japan's Lower House is facing a resounding defeat, and an opposition coalition government could be on the horizon.

This was made possible in part by Proportional Representation. Looking at the latest election data:

https://www.nhk.or.jp/senkyo/database/shugiin/00/tousen_toukaku_hirei.html

The ones with a white cell on the right column are PR representative-elects, and grey cells are the candidates that won their local district in a traditional tally.

One major beneficiary is the Japanese Communist Party (violet), who only won 1 race in the FPTP portion, but because they had sizeable supports nation wide, has 7 total seats at the governing table.

This doesn't only help 3rd parties. The incumbent (red) and leading opposition (blue) parties locked in dead heats in many races, have elected some candidates from the PR field. That way the voice of the group that made 2nd place are not fully lost on the final result.

The proposal was defeated, with 36.8% of the valid votes cast supporting MMP, and 63.2% in favour of retaining FPTP.

Referendums often fail as the fear mongering from the powerful few is very effective.

This why we the people must demand our representatives pass pr through multi-party support. As we have voted them in already.