Sentences with phrase «list system of proportional representation»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

A localized list or local list is a technique used under systems of party - list proportional representation to determine which party candidates are elected from the party list.

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

Each constituency elects one AM by the first past the post (single - member district plurality, SMDP) system, and the additional Assembly seats are filled from regional closed party lists, under the d'Hondt method, with constituency results being taken into account, to produce a degree of proportional representation for each region.

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.

The commission reported in September 1998 and suggested the alternative vote top - up or AV + system, which would directly elect some MPs by the alternative vote, with a number of additional members elected from top up lists similarly to mixed member proportional representation.