Proportional voting means that the number of seats a political party gets in a parliament or government is directly related to the percentage of votes they receive from the people. In other words, it ensures that the political representation matches the support a party receives from the voters.
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- Most Conservatives will remember New Labour's promise to look at a more proportional voting system in their 1997 manifesto. (conservativehome.blogs.com)
- There are a number of proportional voting systems, but in general, they let each voter select a party, the party has an ordered list of candidates, and each party is allocated seats to assign to their candidates in proportion to the number of votes the party received. (politics.stackexchange.com)
- Proportional voting in Parliament is achieved by assigning each MP a parliamentary vote value. (dprvoting.org)
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