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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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What conditions produce the least strategic voting within a democracy?
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If you're talking about citizens voting  (rather than legislators or members of the judiciary): proportional systems encourage less strategic voting than 'first past the post' systems. In these systems, districts have multiple seats allocated based on the percent of the votes they garner. Therefore, if a district has 10 representatives, a party may only need 10% of the vote to get one of those seats allocated to their party. Within proportional representation systems, a lower threshold for getting a party in the legislature can also discourage strategic voting. For example, if a district has 100 representatives to be allocated, a party may only need 1% of the vote in that to get a legislator elected. Some countries also have national minimums necessary for parties to be in the legislature. See Boix (1999) for a great review of how electoral systems affect electoral outcomes.