An electoral or voting system is a set of rules used to determine the results of an election. Electoral systems are used in politics to elect governments...
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This is a list of electoral systems by country in alphabetical order. An electoral system is used to elect national legislatures and heads of state. According...
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The Canadian electoral system is based on a parliamentary system of government modelled on that of the United Kingdom. The Parliament of Canada consists...
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An electoral system (or voting system) is a set of rules that determine how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined...
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The electoral system of Australia comprises the laws and processes used for the election of members of the Australian Parliament and is governed primarily...
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single-vote system was used. Using this single vote, the voter elected both a state party list and a direct candidate of the same party from his electoral district...
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A mixed electoral system is one that uses different electoral systems to elect different seats in a legislature. Most often, this involves a winner-take-all...
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parliaments can occur in certain situations. The five electoral systems used are: the single member plurality system (first-past-the-post), the multi-member plurality...
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Proportional representation (redirect from Proportional electoral system)
Proportional representation (PR) refers to any type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected...
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First-past-the-post voting (redirect from First-past-the-post electoral system)
countries that previously used FPP have abandoned it in favor of other electoral systems, including the former British colonies of Australia and New Zealand...
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the block vote system, whereby voters have as many votes as there are seats available. In addition to the elected members, the Electoral Supervisory Commission...
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Single-member district (redirect from Single winner electoral system)
A single-member district or constituency is an electoral district represented by a single officeholder. It contrasts with a multi-member district, which...
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Elections in China (redirect from Electoral system of the People's Republic of China)
every level in the people's congress system...the tiered, indirect electoral mechanism in the People's Congress system ensures that deputies at the highest...
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The New Zealand parliamentary electoral system has been based on the principle of mixed-member proportional (MMP) since the 1996 election. MMP was introduced...
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In the United States, the Electoral College is the group of presidential electors that is formed every four years during the presidential election for...
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Election (redirect from Criticisms of electoral politics)
which officeholders were chosen by lot. Electoral reform describes the process of introducing fair electoral systems where they are not in place, or improving...
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from 22 multi-member electoral districts through the proportional representation electoral system. All but two of the electoral districts are conterminous...
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The electoral system of Hungary is the set of voting methods and rules used in Hungary, including mainly the system for electing members of the National...
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2025 German federal election (section Electoral system)
without exceptions was unconstitutional. According to the principle that electoral law should be settled at least one year prior to an election, the court...
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elections are to be held every five years. On 24 September 2022, the National Electoral Commission announced that the elections, initially scheduled for 13 November...
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D'Hondt method (redirect from Modified d'Hondt electoral system)
the Australian Electoral Commission using the "modified d'Hondt" electoral system. The electoral system consisted of the d'Hondt system, the Australian...
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to 4-year terms through party-list proportional representation (see electoral system, below), as mandated by the 1958 Basic Law: The Knesset. Knesset seats...
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The electoral system of Turkey varies for general, presidential and local elections that take place in Turkey every five years. Turkey has been a multi-party...
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Loser System in Mauritius" (PDF). Afrika Focus. 28 (1): 66–67. Retrieved 6 November 2024. Mathur, Raj. "Party cooperation and the electoral system in Mauritius"...
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Plurality voting (redirect from Plurality electoral system)
Plurality voting refers to electoral systems in which the candidates in an electoral district who poll more than any other (that is, receive a plurality)...
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would make more sense to speak of a "1960 system." The electoral system that was used under the 1955 system is known as the Single Nontransferable Vote...
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a system of proportional representation, and the country's bicameral Congress consists of a Chamber of Deputies and a Senate. The electoral system for...
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The electoral system of Brazil is the set of means used to choose representatives and government members of the Federative Republic of Brazil. The current...
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Elections in Canada (redirect from Electoral reform in Canada)
new electoral system which aims to replace the First-past-the-post electoral system in favour of a mixed-member proportional representation system. According...
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ways; for example, in party-list proportional representation systems where an electoral threshold requires that a party must receive a specified minimum...
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