Sentence examples for system of single from inspiring English sources

"Compensating the losing candidate is absolutely logical in a mixed electoral system of single member mandates and party lists.

But nobody expects the commission to support the system of single transferable votes which the Lib Dems strongly favour.

He must also avoid giving the impression that he has given up too easily his own party's dream of an ultra-proportional system of single transferable votes.

There he was central in drawing up the EU's main response to the financial and sovereign debt crisis, the establishment of its banking union and the new system of single supervision for the eurozone's financial sector.

Brown reportedly offered Nick Clegg legislation on shifting to a system of single transferable voting, in which the electors' second and third preferences would be reapportioned until one candidate gained a majority.

The government set out areas of agreement between it and the joint committee: a mainly elected chamber, members elected on a system of single transferable vote, staggered elections with one-third coming up for renewal at a time, peers to serve 15-year terms, current peers to leave in stages, a reduced number of peers, and powers to expel peers.

The system of single-member districts generally suits incumbents.

But the national parliament's system of single-member constituencies would have to go.

Perhaps the present British system of single-district representation might be defended if Clegg's remarkable surge were a one-off event.

The oldest such model, Britain's Westminster system of single-member geographic districts, has proved even less popular than the American (or any other) presidential system.

At the congressional level, though, any such upheaval is impossible as long as the present system of single-member districts prevails.