A Single 166 Seat Constituency

[Rebelman]

Imagine 17 10-seaters.
Where would they be?

Donegal-Sligo-Leitrim. Jaysus how would you canvass that?
Cork City
Cork County
Wicklow-Wexford
Laois-Offaly-Carlow-Kilkenny.
Meath-Louth.

I would suspect if a Cork urban constituency (10 seater) and a Cork rural (10 seater) existed the results would be along these lines (at the moment its highly unlikely though Cork would have any more than 19 seats in total):

Cork Urban: (10 seater)

FF 4
FG 3
Lab 1

2 seats up for grabs between FF * 2, FG *1, LAB *1, SF * 1, Green *1

Cork Rural: (10 seater)

FF 4
FG 3
Lab 1

2 seats up for grabs between FF * 2, FG *2, LAB *1

Based on the above the totals would be:

FF max 12 min min 8
FG max 9 min 6
Lab max 4 min 2
Green max 1 min 0
SF max 1 min 0

[FutureTaoiseach]

At one level it seems fair in that party seat-totals would be more reflective of the share of the vote. I am still opposed however because I feel such a system would greatly weaken the link between constituents and their elected representatives.