Sentence examples for majority system from inspiring English sources

He cited financial services and the example of the double majority system on banking union.

And so of course the advantage of the American system is that it's a majority system so he can decide.

The plurality formula usually, though not always, distorts the distribution of seats more than the majority system.

13 requires a two-thirds vote for new state spending and taxes, overriding the simple majority system under which the legislature does all other business.

It is distinguished from the majority system, in which, to win, a candidate must receive more votes than all other candidates combined.

According to the 2005 amendment to the Basic Law, the 2006 election was a mixed majority system and proportional representation system.

Not surprisingly, the outcomes of proportional systems usually are more proportional than those of plurality or majority systems.

In practice, legislative electoral systems can be classified into three broad categories: plurality and majority systems (collectively known as majoritarian systems); proportional systems; and hybrid, or semiproportional, systems.

The Socialists had always accepted the double-majority system that the PP jibbed at, and their pro-EU sympathies were well known.

Germany, more sensitive to the small members, suggests a "double-majority" system which would add a population-weighted vote to the normal qualified majority; but the French oppose this because it would give the Germans greater weight than themselves.The question of voting weights has already caused considerable friction.

With the Nice reforms, the passage probability in an EU of 15 rises, fractionally, to 8.2%; but the reforms actually reduce the passage probability in an EU of 27, to 2.1%.Compare this with passage probability under the simple dual-majority system favoured by the European Commission (as well as by The Economist).