The Block Vote is often applauded for retaining the voter's ability to vote for individual candidates, and allowing for reasonably-sized geographical districts. At the same time, it stresses the role of parties and strengthens those parties demonstrating most coherence and organizational ability.

The advantages of the Party Block Vote are:

• it is simple to use,
• encourages strong parties, and
• allows for parties to put up mixed slates of candidates in order to facilitate minority representation.