Some history of Second choice party voting

2003 Student Report at Victoria University, Welliington

Here is the full Winkler Constitutional Law Student Report from 2003

https://onthethreshold.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2003winklersecondchoice153553111.pdf

Here is a document with selected parts of the full 2023 Winkler Report

https://onthethreshold.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2003winklersecondchoiceselected.pdf

The 2012 MMP review

https://onthethreshold.nz/mmp-review-submissions/

A 2021 item on the Democracy Project website

Ed Hitchcock: A simple way to solve the problem of the MMP threshold

The 2023 Independent Electoral Review

The directory:

https://onthethreshold.nz/2023-independent-electoral-review/

My submission to the Interim Report

https://onthethreshold.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/3717submission3hitchcock.pdf

Jesse Mulligan Interview of Ed Hitchcock on Radio NZ “Afternoons”, 16 May 2026

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2019035175/a-possible-path-for-political-parties-to-escape-the-5-trap

Germans are advancing the same idea, in 2026

Mehr-Demokratie (More Democracy), a German pro-democracy movement has a current campaign aiming to introduce second-choice party voting in Germany. Right click and choose Translate to see it in English

https://www.mehr-demokratie.de/mehr-bewegen/kampagnen/rettet-die-stimmen