Few countries still have this system; the vast majority have opted for the more democratic
system of proportional representation.
Friends of Dugdale have since pointed out that Rowley, when seeking election as the Scottish Party's deputy leader last year, promised that if he won he would not accept a protected place at the top of one of the lists from which a 56 of Holyrood's 129 MSPs are elected under
a system of proportional representation only to go back on his word as soon as he won that particular race.
-- State funding of political parties — Moving to an electoral
system of proportional representation — Reforming the party whip system in Parliament
Voters will receive three ballot papers when they go to vote: one for the Mayor, one for Constituency Assembly Members (who represent particular areas) and one for the London - wide Assembly Members (who do not represent a particular area and are voted for through
a system of proportional representation).
Nevertheless, he suggests switching to
a system of proportional representation would increase the descriptive representation of women faster than is likely under the current first - past - the - post system.
A key part of this plan was the decision that this new parliament would be elected by
a system of proportional representation (PR).
Members, who will no longer be called peers, will sit for a maximum of three five - year terms and elections will take place at the same time as European Parliament elections, using the same regional lists
system of proportional representation.
Third, if minor parties are worried about how winner - take - all, single - member - district elections encourage voters to vote for lesser evils rather than their first choice, we want to work with them for a real solution to that problem:
a system of proportional representation,» LaVenia said.
It meant that although the BNP came fifth in the popular vote in the region, it won a seat through
the system of proportional representation used in the European elections.
In answering another question Lord Strathclyde confirmed that «it was in the coalition agreement that, in the event of there being an elected second Chamber, it would be under
the system of proportional representation.»
But many
systems of proportional representation are preferable to the current FPTP electoral system that is dividing rather than uniting the United Kingdom.
The regional vote is used to elect representatives from party lists to stand in regional seats, taking into account how many seats were gained by that party in the constituency vote, using
a system of proportional representation: the number of seats a party receives will roughly reflect its percentage of the vote.
Not exact matches
But there isn't such a computer, and without
proportional representation, our valiant efforts at voting our principles are undermined or rendered neutral by a crude
system designed to favour incumbents and lower expectations
of what is possible.
And Postmedia News columnist Andrew Coyne and Alex Himelfarb, former clerk
of the Privy Council, representing the Yes side in the Great Debate: Be it Resolved that Canada Needs
Proportional Representation, argued persuasively about how the current winner - take - all
system is broken and PR is the only solution to remedy the problems
of first - post-the-post.
Speakers making the case for why it's time to listen to the experts and Canadians — and get down to business and develop a made - in - Canada
proportional representation system include Hassan Yussuff, President
of the Canadian Labour Congress, Katelynn Northam, electoral reform campaign lead at Leadnow, Farhat Rehman
of the Canadian Council
of Muslim Women and Annie Bérubé, director
of government relations at Équiterre.
ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- Greece's parliament has approved plans to lower the voting age by a year to 17 and adopt a
proportional representation system, after years
of economic austerity have hammered popular support for traditionally dominant political...
Therefore, in order to move to a
proportional representation system, you would need the state officials in charge
of drawing congressional districts (traditionally the state legislature) to draw districts against their own interests when it is perfectly legal to blatantly draw them in your favor (so long as you don't do so in such a way as to not explicitly dilute the power
of some actual protected class, i.e. race, gender, etc.).
Open preferential voting is a hybrid electoral
system which allows voters to either express a rank ordering
of individual candidates in the same manner as STV, or to select a list
of candidates chosen by a political party, much like a closed list
proportional representation system.
On Saturday 10th March 2012, Slovakia joined the small but growing club
of European countries that elected a majority government despite using a
proportional representation system.
Far from putting
proportional representation on the agenda, the Tories are now in a position to push through reform
of electoral boundaries under the existing first - past - the - post
system to make it fairer (i.e. better for them).
-LRB-...) since the constitution, unlike many
of its European counterparts, does not prescribe
proportional representation in elections, no feature
of the new electoral
system discussed so far appears to be unconstitutional.
That the SNP would win a third consecutive victory was never in any doubt but it's a measure
of how dominant the nationalists have become in the aftermath
of the 2014 independence referendum that the party's inability to win a second overall majority - under a
proportional representation system designed to prevent just such an outcome - may be considered something
of a failure.
Indeed, the ability
of a small clique in political party apparatuses to determine who runs for office, coupled with
proportional representation systems that allow for the concentration
of power in the hands
of a few, has led to tight control
of who gets elected.
With the introduction
of a parliamentary
system, political parties started to form quickly and this led to a call for electoral reform that saw the introduction
of a Party - list
proportional representation in 1918.
The second set
of seats (20) are won at a larger regional area using a
system called «
proportional representation», and is designed to ensure that no party wins either far more or far fewer seats than the share
of votes they received.
«Additional Member»
System (AMS)-- this is a proportional representation system used to elect members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs), the Welsh Assembly (AMs) and Greater London Ass
System (AMS)-- this is a
proportional representation system used to elect members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs), the Welsh Assembly (AMs) and Greater London Ass
system used to elect members
of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs), the Welsh Assembly (AMs) and Greater London Assembly.
The remaining 40 to 45 per cent
of representatives for each body (the «additional members») are elected in large regional areas using a
proportional representation system, so as to match every party's share
of winning candidates to their votes share.
Such is the weight
of expectation on Nicola Sturgeon's shoulders that failure by the SNP to win each and every one
of the Scottish Parliament's 73 constituencies (leaving other parties to pick up seats decided under a
proportional representation system) would be seen as some kind
of failure.
Sturgeon requires the continuing support
of unionist voters, happy to back the SNP in government if not to endorse their view on the future
of the UK, if she is to repeat her party's trick
of winning an overall majority in a parliament elected under a
system that's part first - past - the - post and part
proportional representation.
The essential moment in bringing the new party political
system to dominance will therefore be the establishment
of the electoral mechanism for such coalitions — the introduction
of proportional representation.
The second set
of seats (11) are won at a «London - wide» level using a
system called «
proportional representation», and is designed to ensure that no party wins either far more or far fewer seats than the share
of votes they received.
STV is the
system of choice
of groups such as the
Proportional Representation Society of Australia (which calls it quota - preferential proportional representation), [2] the Electoral Reform Society in the United Kingdom [3] and FairVote in the USA (which refers to both STV and instant - runoff voting as ranked - choice voting, [4] although there are other preferential voting methods that use ranked - choi
Proportional Representation Society of Australia (which calls it quota - preferential proportional representation), [2] the Electoral Reform Society in the United Kingdom [3] and FairVote in the USA (which refers to both STV and instant - runoff voting as ranked - choice voting, [4] although there are other preferential voting methods that use ranked - ch
Representation Society
of Australia (which calls it quota - preferential
proportional representation), [2] the Electoral Reform Society in the United Kingdom [3] and FairVote in the USA (which refers to both STV and instant - runoff voting as ranked - choice voting, [4] although there are other preferential voting methods that use ranked - choi
proportional representation), [2] the Electoral Reform Society in the United Kingdom [3] and FairVote in the USA (which refers to both STV and instant - runoff voting as ranked - choice voting, [4] although there are other preferential voting methods that use ranked - ch
representation), [2] the Electoral Reform Society in the United Kingdom [3] and FairVote in the USA (which refers to both STV and instant - runoff voting as ranked - choice voting, [4] although there are other preferential voting methods that use ranked - choice ballots).
A
proportional representation (PR)
system creates electoral conditions that foster development
of many parties, whereas a plurality
system marginalizes smaller political parties, generally resulting in a two - party
system.
When the UK was given the opportunity to adopt a
proportional representation electoral
system in the 2011, it was notable only for the lack
of enthusiasm from voters.
Israel has a closed list
proportional representation electoral
system with a single nationwide constituency so, apart from the 3.25 % threshold, changes in seats are pretty much perfectly sensitive to the changes in the share
of the vote.
The party is in favour
of reform
of traditional British institutions such as the Church
of England, a change in the electoral
system from first - past - the - post to
proportional representation, and drug decriminalisation.
Syracuse, NY — If Green Party candidate for mayor in Syracuse Howie Hawkins had his way, the current
system of city government would scrapped and replaced by a
system of what he calls «grassroots democracy and
proportional representation.»
Elections to the European Parliament began in 1979, and were held under the first past the post
system until 1999, when a form
of proportional representation was introduced.
Supporters also argue that electoral
systems using
proportional representation (PR) often enable smaller parties to become decisive in Parliament, thus gaining a power
of leverage against the Government.
It is the latest
of a series
of inroads on the first past the post voting
system; already in elections for the Scottish parliament, the Welsh and Northern Irish assemblies and soon the election
of a new London authority,
proportional representation has become the chosen method
of voting.
He also leaves his party before winning his battle to shift the British electoral
system away from first past the post to a
proportional representation system which would significantly push up his party's share
of Commons seats.
The July 21 Sacramento Bee has this op - ed by Kris Novoselic and Rob Richie, advocating that states and other units
of government use either
proportional representation, or cumulative voting, or instant runoff voting, instead
of the «winner - take - all»
system so prevalent in the U.S. Read more»
In particular, the use
of multi-member districts alongside voting
systems establishing
proportional representation such as single transferable voting can reduce wasted votes and gerrymandering.
When the British Columbia considered the question
of whether to reform its electoral
system from majority rule election
of legislators to some form
of proportional representation, the Government
of British Columbia created a body called the British Columbia Citizen's Assembly, composed
of citizens from throughout the province.
Decisions about the rules
of the political game — including the geographic delineation
of electoral districts, rules about campaign financing, and voting
systems such as plurality election and
proportional representation — are frequently made by legislative bodies.
I am thinking about this particular form
of proportional representation for a parliamentary
system and I am wondering if it has been used before.
Although DPR Voting is a
Proportional Representation (PR)
system, it maintains the
system of single member constituencies, the method by which MPs are elected, and the relationship between the MP and their electorate.
He urged the use
of a
proportional voting
system so that smaller parties would receive fair
representation.
Introduction Direct Party and Representative Voting (DPR Voting) is an electoral
system specifically intended to introduce a form
of proportional representation to elections for the House
of Commons in the UK while requiring the least change to the familiar «First Past the Post» (FPTP)
system.
The minister also urged advocates
of proportional representation to realise MPs would not vote for a
system which would lose many
of them their jobs.