Sentences with phrase «many systems of proportional representation»

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.

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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 AssSystem (AMS)-- this is a proportional representation system used to elect members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs), the Welsh Assembly (AMs) and Greater London Asssystem 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.

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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.