Overhang seats are constituency seats won in an election under the traditional mixed-member proportional (MMP) system (as it originated in Germany), when...

Look up overhang, overhanging, overhangs, or overhung in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Overhang may refer to: Debt overhang, a fiscal situation of a...

United Future. * indicates an overhang seat Forecasted seats are calculated using the Electoral Commission's MMP seat allocation calculator, based on...

vary. Overhang seats may reduce the proportionality of the system, although this can be compensated for by allocating additional party list seats to cover...

candidates. Two overhang seats were added due to Te Pāti Māori winning six electorate seats when the party vote only entitled them to four seats, with an additional...

candidate of "the Margo party") her seat was left vacant until the next election. Politics portal Overhang seat "99 MP party list", NZ Herald, 24 August...

when failing to reach proportionality (as it cannot compensate for overhang seats) it is classified as semi-proportional electoral system. In practice...

leveling seats was finally decided. Mette Hanekamhaug got the final seat. Traditionally, Germany's mixed member proportional system awarded overhang seats with...

introduction of MMP elections (i.e. 120 plus any overhang seats; there has been at least one overhang seat in five of the 10 MMP elections held since 1996)...

single-member electorates, including one overhang seat, and 52 from party lists (one extra due to the overhang). No party won a majority, but the Labour...

of seats in the Bundestag will be increased as much as necessary to ensure that any overhang seats are compensated through apportioned leveling seats, to...

120 MPs, although the number can increase due to a small number of overhang seats, depending on the outcome of the electoral process. The total number...

United Future. * indicates an overhang seat Forecasted seats are calculated using the Electoral Commission's MMP seat allocation calculator, based on...

Māori seats and 2.12% of the party vote. The latter entitled the party to only three list seats, so the fourth electorate seat caused an overhang seat. In...

the 18th Bundestag of Germany. At stake were all 598 seats to the Bundestag, plus 33 overhang seats determined thereafter. The Christian Democratic Union...

though sometimes more due to overhang seats. There are 72 MPs elected directly in electorates while the remainder of seats are assigned to list MPs based...

Mitglieder des Bundestages) is 598; however, due to the system of overhang and leveling seats the current 20th Bundestag has a total of 735 members, making...

compensatory seat allocation is complicated by the possibility that one or more parties wins so many of the district seats ("overhang") that the available...

resigns; his seat is vacated permanently because it is an overhang seat 224 613 25 February 2008 Johann-Henrich Krummacher dies; his seat is vacated permanently...

less proportional in such cases (see the article "Overhang seat", section "Dealing with overhang seats" for the alternative method that was proposed). On...

as the ratio of FPTP seats to PR seats, the existence or nonexistence of extra compensatory seats to make up for overhang seats, and electoral thresholds...

from single-member electorates, and 51 from party lists including one overhang seat. New Zealand since 1996 has used the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP)...

of seats approximately proportional to their vote share. Other systems may be insufficiently compensatory, and this may result in overhang seats, where...

constituency seats and 60 party list seats) until no overhang seats remain, i.e. the number of leveling seats added is equal to the original number of overhang seats...

compensatory seat allocation is complicated by the possibility that one or more parties wins so many of the district seats ("overhang") that the available...

receives more seats than it would be entitled to according to its second vote share in that state, the excess seats become known as overhang seats; to avoid...

second votes. Overhang seats may add to the nominal number of 598 members: for example, in the 2009 federal election there were 24 overhang seats, giving a...

imbalances in the number of MPs (members of parliament) by state caused by overhang seats. New Zealand also uses MMP. DM is moderate where districts break up...

A power seat in an automobile is a seat in a passenger compartment that can be adjusted using a button, switch or joystick and a set of small electric...

the party's national seats to be allocated to the state where the vote was cast and which already had overhang seats (overhang seats being allocated at...