Sentence examples for based on proportional representation from inspiring English sources

Mr. Clegg did not specify the voting system the Liberal Democrats have long advocated, one based on proportional representation, which is designed to assign seats in proportion to vote share.

There would be two bodies in Congress — one based on proportional representation (the House of Representatives) and the other based on states (the Senate).

In the end it was Lord Jenkins's inability to replace Britain's electoral system with one based on proportional representation that prevented him from breaking the mold of British politics and creating a new centrist majority.

Like the US and Canada (but unlike Europe and ex-British outposts including Australia) the Westminster parliament has stuck to the first-past-the-post voting system rather than one based on proportional representation: the candidate with most votes in a constituency wins.

If you want a cheer from the Commons these days, demand "a democratic House of Lords based on proportional representation".

But the only reform that would make all votes of equal value would be adoption of a voting system based on proportional representation.

After a disastrous term, he left behind his own "poison pill": a law to change Italy's electoral system back to one based largely on proportional representation.

Less radically, Madison pressed for a legislature based solely on proportional representation; the number of legislators would reflect the number of people in the state, not the state itself.

Since 2012 isn't over yet, Flurry estimated the growth rates based on proportional changes from 2011.

On November 20 the governing Democrats and the rival Socialists joined forces to pass a new electoral law based on regional proportional representation.

But voters had not expressed an opinion on proportional representation, he said.