Preferential Voting Across the World

The impact of ideological positions and personal attributes of candidates in intraparty competition: A study under the Swiss open‐list PR System

“…One consequence of intraparty preference voting (IPV) is that candidates from the same party must compete against each other in order to be elected. In those races, candidates' personal attributes (such as gender, age, incumbency, electoral experience and localness) become relevant factors in the intraparty election, as a number of studies have shown (Valdini, 2012, 2013; Dahlgaard, 2016; Jankowski, 2016; Passarelli, 2019). The literature has also found that the position of candidates on the ballot affects their chance of attracting preference votes (Darcy & McAllister, 1990; Miller & Krosnick, 1998; Lutz, 2010; Marcinkiewicz & Stegmaier, 2015; Blom‐Hansen et al, 2016; Mustillo & Polga‐Hecimovich, 2020; Söderlund et al, 2021).…”