Under this system, adopted by Germany after World War II and in several countries after the fall of communism in eastern Europe, half of the legislature usually is elected through constituency elections and half through proportional representation (the percentage of constituency and proportional representatives varies by country).
The Tories in Scotland are still in the political wilderness, and their only hope of gaining any seats at all resides in the proportional-representative electoral system for the Parliament.
In proportional representation, by contrast, representatives of different groups are seated in the legislature in proportion to citizens' choices.
He was also an advocate of proportional representation for the Senate as representative of the "true majority", and managed to guide the 1902 Customs Tariff Act through the Senate with minimal interference.
An unwavering egalitarian and internationalist, she was a campaigner for understanding and cooperation in Europe as an instrument of peace, and proportional representation as a means of obtaining more representative government.
Senator Ricky Muir, of the Motoring Enthusiast Party and famous for participating in a kangaroo-poo fight in a YouTube video, was elected with just 0.51% of primary first-preference votes.Hardly proportional and certainly not representative.ANTON PETROV MelbourneIt is wrongheaded to think that Britain's electoral system is unfair because it disadvantages smaller parties.
Proportional representation, electoral system that seeks to create a representative body that reflects the overall distribution of public support for each political party.
Because representatives are elected on the basis of proportional representation, recent governments have been dominated by coalitions of the strongest parties.
The 42 members of the house of representatives are directly elected via a system of proportional representation.
There is a wide consensus that Britain's representatives in the European Parliament should be chosen by proportional representation and not by first-past-the-post.
Major influences favourable to the two-party system are the use of single-member districts for the election of representatives, the presidential system, and the absence of proportional representation.
