Sentences with phrase «electoral system of proportional representation»

-- State funding of political parties — Moving to an electoral system of proportional representation — Reforming the party whip system in Parliament

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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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«AV is a little short of proportional representation» Interviewed on Channel 4 News, Nick Clegg told Jon Snow the government was bringing two things together: giving people a say on whether they want a different electoral system, and secondly, making sure that your vote is worth the same value, wherever you live.

The most widely used families of PR electoral systems are party list PR, the single transferable vote (STV), and mixed member proportional representation (MMP).

His backing for electoral reform - which would mean scrapping the first - past - the - post system on which Westminster MPs are elected in favour of some form of proportional representation (PR)- came as John Denham, the skills secretary, also let it be known that he favours considering a number of «radical steps», including electoral reform.

Where the problem begins is when supporters of Britain's First Past the Post electoral system attempt to claim that introducing proportional representation necessarily means breaking that link.

But many systems of proportional representation are preferable to the current FPTP electoral system that is dividing rather than uniting the United Kingdom.

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 Liberals are very alive to the fact the population of Canada will not very likely support a change of the current electoral system to either ranked balloting or proportional representation.