Sentences with phrase «district electoral systems»

But this in itself is no guarantee of inevitable change in the representational share between the major and minor parties, especially in single - member district electoral systems.

Not exact matches

The electoral system remains an «unlinked» (non-compensatory) mixed system, but 106 seats are now allocated through single member districts (SMD), while 93 are allocated through party lists.

The system with 225 local single - member districts elected by a first - past - the - post electoral system (highest vote wins) offers much room for manipulation, use of administrative resources and pressure, extortion, vote buying and putting only one candidate on the ballot in some districts.

Within each electoral district (constituency / ward / whatever) the first past the post system encourages a two - party position.

Electoral systems with election of just one winner in each district (i.e., «winner - takes - all» electoral systems) and no proportional distribution of extra mandates to smaller parties tend to create two - party systems (Duverger's law).

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.

The exact names, dates, term lengths, term limits, electoral systems, electoral districts, and other details are determined by the individual states» laws.

A number of electoral systems use single - member districts, including plurality voting (first past the post), two - round systems, instant - runoff voting (IRV), approval voting, range voting, Borda count, and Condorcet methods (such as the Minimax Condorcet, Schulze method, and Ranked Pairs).

Legislated quotas are more frequently used in PR List electoral systems where it is easier to combine quotas with lists of party candidates due to higher district magnitudes and more candidates per party in each constituency.

Given the unpopularity of PP and PSOE, the fact that EP elections are often considered of «second - order» and the specificities of the electoral system for European elections in Spain (proportional representation in a large national electoral district of 54 seats with no electoral threshold), one would expect that this election will threaten the stability of the two - party system (or «bipartidismo», as it is called in Spain) that has dominated Spanish politics during the recent democratic era.

The additional member system (AMS), also known as mixed - member proportional representation (MMP) outside the United Kingdom, [1][2][3][4] is a mixed electoral system with one tier of single - member district representatives, and another tier of «additional members» elected to make the overall election results more proportional.

The 1993 reform government under Hosokawa Morihiro introduce a new electoral system whereby 200 members (reduced to 180 beginning with the 2000 election) are elected by proportional representation in multi-member districts or «blocs» while 300 are elected from single - candidate districts.