Sentence examples for seat constituencies from inspiring English sources

House of Representatives: Of 480 members, 300 are elected from single seat constituencies under the Single Member Plurality ("First-past-the-post") system, and 180 are elected from eleven separate electoral blocs under the party list system of proportional representation (PR).

In general, such countries have adopted single-seat constituencies, though multimember constituencies are also possible.

Half of the Bundestag's members are elected to represent single-seat constituencies, and half are elected through proportional representation.

Japan's present mixture of proportional representation and single-seat constituencies demands politics with a much broader appeal, pitched more squarely at the urban consumer.

Before electoral reforms in 1993 abolished Japan's multi-seat constituencies, LDP politicians could secure a seat with 15% or less of the popular vote.

Voting took part in two stages: the election of 225 deputies based on party lists by proportional representation and the election of a further 225 in one-seat constituencies.

This was in spite of a recent change to the electoral system to merge single-seat constituencies into ones returning up to three members that seemed designed to encourage Mr Thaksin's supporters to spread their votes around other parties.

I've been really interested in websites such as VoteSwap, in which people exchange their vote if they feel it will be wasted in safe-seat constituencies – an attempt at rebelling against first-past-the-post.

The pact between the MPRP and the opposition National Democratic Party (NDP) and Social Democratic Party SDPP) on proportional representation was abandoned by the MPRP, which forced through the State Great Hural (national assembly) a bill changing the 26 multiseat constituencies of the 1992 election into 76 single-seat constituencies.

District magnitude (i.e., the number of members per district) varies from country to country; for example, the Netherlands uses a single national district to elect the 150 members of its Tweede Kamer (Second Chamber), and Chile elects members of its legislature by using two-seat constituencies.

"There are 225 single-seat constituencies and we see our candidates winning two-thirds of them," he said.