PR with combination of party list and personal vote

[Tender Branson]

In Austria you have a party list, but with preferential candidate voting.

In theory, if a candidate who's let's say ranked 50th on the list, starts a preference voting campaign and that candidate receives a ton of votes, then that person will get ranked 1st on the list after the election (unless some other candidate has more preference votes).

[Tender Branson]

I'll write more on how that Austrian preference system works tomorrow.

A few early things: It's complicated, hardly used by voters and there are some hurdles which means hardly any candidates are moved up on the lists (in the 2013 federal election, only 1 candidate out of 183 MPs was elected with the help of preference votes).