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list system - based on the principle of proportional representation; voters choose between party lists, the number elected from each list being determined by the percentage cast for each list out of the total vote

scrutin de liste, scrutin de liste system

electoral system, voting system - a legal system for making democratic choices

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Such seats are elected through party-list proportional representation.

Ex-premier leaving Taiwan to stay clear of political strife

The party-list proportional representation system means that South Africans elect representatives who don't have any real link to their needs and interests in the areas in which they live and work.

Ramaphosa a breath of fresh air but South Africans can't relax

35 of March 18th, 1990), drafted and adopted for the elections in May 1990, established the election of the President by a majority vote in two rounds (for more details about the majoritarian electoral system in two rounds, see Martin, 1999: 50-53) and of the members of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies--by a party-list proportional representation in multi-member constituencies (article 2).

Evolutions of the Romanian electoral legislation after 1990. Do we need another electoral law?

The most widespread variety of proportional rules is party-list proportional representation, currently employed in the vast majority of West European and Latin American countries and amply used in other parts of the world.

The case for mixed single vote electoral systems

All of his party's candidates fielded in five constituencies lost and the party also failed to secure seats under the nationwide party-list proportional representation system.

Independent vows effort for disaster-hit Iwate following election win

party-list proportional representation at the elections of Yerevan Mayor.

Former mayor of Yerevan to top ANC party list

Nearly 650,000 voters of the country's 1.1 million citizens were eligible to cast ballots to elect 65 parliamentarians through a party-list proportional representation system.

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