A minority government, or minority cabinet or minority parliament, is a cabinet
formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the parliament.
It would be much clearer to voters if they could see that
in our
parliamentary system, first we elect a parliament, and then it is up to the new parliament to decide who shall
form the government.
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.
In 1976, the Hansard Society recommended that a mixed electoral system in a form different from the German be used for UK parliamentary elections, but instead of using closed party lists, it proposed that seats be filled by the «best runner - up» basis used by the German state of Baden - Wurttemberg, where the compensatory seats are filled by the party's defeated candidates who were the «best near - winner» in each of the state's four region
In 1976, the Hansard Society recommended that a mixed electoral
system in a form different from the German be used for UK parliamentary elections, but instead of using closed party lists, it proposed that seats be filled by the «best runner - up» basis used by the German state of Baden - Wurttemberg, where the compensatory seats are filled by the party's defeated candidates who were the «best near - winner» in each of the state's four region
in a
form different from the German be used for UK
parliamentary elections, but instead of using closed party lists, it proposed that seats be filled by the «best runner - up» basis used by the German state of Baden - Wurttemberg, where the compensatory seats are filled by the party's defeated candidates who were the «best near - winner»
in each of the state's four region
in each of the state's four regions.