Sentences with phrase «of proportional representation»

I am thinking about this particular form of proportional representation for a parliamentary system and I am wondering if it has been used before.

We probably gave in too easily on a referendum for a system of proportional representation which nobody understood.

The introduction of proportional representation is no longer a matter of if, but when.

A committee will look into ways of creating a wholly or mainly elected upper chamber on the basis of proportional representation.

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.

This tactic is the same in any method of proportional representation.

So that would probably mean some kind of proportional representation.

This is a form of proportional representation applied to the electoral college: It splits each state's electoral votes in accordance with their popular vote percentages.

Of course, proponents of proportional representation might argue that the participants in the study were not professionals (art critics for example).

Few countries still have this system; the vast majority have opted for the more democratic system of proportional representation.

More specifically, the chamber would be directly elected by a form of proportional representation.

The only promise there was to «establish a committee to bring forward proposals for a wholly or mainly elected upper chamber on the basis of proportional representation».

It is also one of eight constituencies in the South Wales Central electoral region that elects four additional members (along with eight constituency members), to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

(However many nations that utilise a form of proportional representation in elections depart from pure proportionality by stipulating that smaller parties are not supported by a certain threshold percentage of votes cast will be excluded from parliament.)

Meanwhile, Douglas Carswell, MP for Harwich and Clacton, came out as a staunch supporter of proportional representation.

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.

Secondly, the electoral system for English local government should be changed to the Single Transferable Vote version of proportional representation used in Scotland for local elections.

«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.

However, because of the proportional representation element to the regional vote it is unlikely they or any party will hold a majority at Holyrood.

My view hasn't, nor will it, change that a senate or House of Lords should be, at the very least, majority - elected on the same day as a general election, ideally by a similar list system of proportional representation on the same boundaries as for European elections.

The election's high stakes issues include a referendum to shift B.C. to a complex form of proportional representation called STV — which fails.

A Labour MP is scornful of proportional representation, when that's been rejected by voters.

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.

I'm aware of proportional representation (PR), we have it in the Australian Senate (with some complexities).

The Internet has played a part, as has the introduction of proportional representation at various non-Westminster elections: voting is habit - forming and people who have backed smaller parties at, say, Scottish or European elections can not automatically be recalled to their older national allegiances.

While associated mainly with environmentalist policies, it has a history of support for communitarian economic policies, including well - funded, locally controlled public services within the confines of a steady - state economy, is supportive of proportional representation and takes a progressive approach to social policies.

Signifi cantly, he draws a major lesson from the failure of the Liberals in 1917 - 18 to push through a form of proportional representation like the Brown government in 2007 - 2009, either of which would have shifted the balance away from the Conservatives being the «natural party of government».

The 2003 coalition negotiation process was widely seen as a more successful enterprise by the Liberal Democrats than the preceding one, with key aspects of Labour's proposals on anti-social behaviour dropped or limited, and with the promise of proportional representation for Scotland's 32 local councils.

The Senate has a limited level of proportional representation and so ideological reconciliation occurs in the senate chamber (a good thing) instead within the voting booth as some form of game - theory trying to optimise between two viable options (e.g. Tolerable Party vs Intolerable Party).

To me, the Lib Dems and Labour are more suitable bedfellows, and the glimpse of proportional representation was enough for me to cast all other considerations to one side.

«The idea of proportional representation is simply not popular in our party, it's not popular in the Tory party, and even if there was a referendum held, it would not be binding,» he said.

Apart from the issue of proportional representation for elections to the Commons, where the Lib Dems have an obvious vested interest, and Iraq (a bitter disagreement but now largely behind us), the Lib Dems have not set out fundamental differences of principle with New Labour.

Several senior Lib Dems — notably Lembit Opik and Simon Hughes — are opponents of proportional representation, while supporting AV.

It seeks to change the voting system for parliamentary elections in the UK to a model of proportional representation.

Accepting this point does not mean one has to be in favour of Proportional Representation or even the Alternative Vote.

It is a much needed upgrade to «First Past the Post» — not a step into the uncharted territory of proportional representation.

(The joys of proportional representation).

The abolition of proportional representation in 1929 meant that the structure of party politics gave the Ulster Unionist Party a continual sizeable majority in the Parliament of Northern Ireland, leading to fifty years of one - party rule.

And at last Nick Clegg has achieved his party's long - cherished ambition of proportional representation.

The lack of proportional representation is becoming a danger to democracy as voters try and fail to elect new parties, leaving Ukip and Greens with just one MP each despite millions of votes and no socialist party.

All this has the makings of a shabby deal: Brown quits, Labour cobble together an interim new leader and a deal is done with Clegg with a referendum on various forms of proportional representation as the price.

The widespread use of proportional representation means single party rule is very much the exception there - and government is a matter very much for a tiny elite, with politicians from rival parties having far more in common with each other than they ever do with voters.

The group evaluates each initiative based on its statement of principles, which states that any electoral reform should achieve the five objectives of proportional representation:

In a system of proportional representation not all seats are immediately divided, some seats remain undivided remainder seats.

Inspired by his painting, «Sunset,» educators at the New Jersey Administrators as Scholars Summit designed a framework that helped indicate both the skills they felt were needed on their team and a sense of proportional representation.

But these negotiations foundered, in part because the Conservatives would not countenance the introduction of proportional representation for local government elections.