Sentences with phrase «proportional voting methods»

CES: A lot of the electoral systems in the US rely on winner - take - all, which sort of directly bars out proportional voting methods.

IRV is not a proportional voting method.

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STV is the system of choice of groups such as the Proportional Representation Society of Australia (which calls it quota - preferential proportional representation), [2] the Electoral Reform Society in the United Kingdom [3] and FairVote in the USA (which refers to both STV and instant - runoff voting as ranked - choice voting, [4] although there are other preferential voting methods that use ranked - choiProportional Representation Society of Australia (which calls it quota - preferential proportional representation), [2] the Electoral Reform Society in the United Kingdom [3] and FairVote in the USA (which refers to both STV and instant - runoff voting as ranked - choice voting, [4] although there are other preferential voting methods that use ranked - choiproportional representation), [2] the Electoral Reform Society in the United Kingdom [3] and FairVote in the USA (which refers to both STV and instant - runoff voting as ranked - choice voting, [4] although there are other preferential voting methods that use ranked - choice ballots).

In 1948, single transferable vote proportional representation on a state - by - state basis became the method for electing Senators to the Australian Senate.

Curtice and Steven show that a switch from the d'Hondt to the Sainte - Laguë method of allocating list seats, a method that is already enshrined in other aspects of the UK's electoral arrangements, would have produced a more proportional result in which the SNP would not have won a majority despite winning well under 50 % of the vote.

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.

The Rosatellum used an additional member system, which act as a mixed system, with 36 % of seats allocated using a first past the post electoral system and 64 % using a proportional method, with one round of voting.

The House of Councillors (Sangi - in) has 242 members, elected for a six - year term, 146 members in 47 single - and multi-seat constituencies (prefectures) by single non-transferable vote and 96 by proportional representation (by D'Hondt method) on the national level.

As a part of supporting Paul Martin's minority government, the NDP will probably want the Liberals to have a look at a new voting method, proportional representation, rather than the current first past the post method.