A hybrid system is made specifically for a country and tries to mix the 2 systems.
The main example is AV+ made for Britain, which is 80% majority and 20% proportional.
There are 4 main objectives of electoral systems:
1,Decisive government- This formed when a government can out vote all the other parties put together with a comfortable margin just in case some of the governments own Mps vote against its polices. This is important because the government can carry out its polices in the best interests of its voters without being scrutinized and without creating arguments. But then the government isn’t held accountable for its actions.
2, Political representation-This is simply how accurately a parties total vote is converted into percentage vote. Proportional systems tend to provide coalition government and sometimes very weak governments to.
3, Social representation-Is the electoral system providing representation for minorities? Half of Britain’s population is women but are half the Mps in Britain women? NO, so FPTP isn’t very good for social representation
4, Voter choice- How many choices or options does the voter have? Does it get to choose between Mps in the same constituency, do they get a second choice? These questions make up voter choice.
Some people regard some of these objectives more importantly than others and this what causes most controversy.
Attitudes to electoral change
Both the Tories and Labour are comfortable with FPTP and would probably lose out if there was a change in electoral change. The tories have won 66% of all the general elections in the alst century so they don’t wish to change, and labours majority is so huge it would be hard to improve on it.
However all the minor parties would benefit from any sort of change especially in favour of a PR system.
