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Proportional Representation
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PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION What is proportional representation? Proportional representation is a broad term for a group of electoral systems that distribute a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates get in elections and the percentage of seats they receive. Proportional Representation includes systems like STV, AMS and AV+. It is often distinguished from plurality voting systems, where disproportional seat distribution results from the division of voters into multiple electoral districts, for instance in first past the post districts. Though we do not use PR in general elections, countries like Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland use PR on a regular basis. Explain the workings of the AMS and the STV in the UK Additional member systems have been in use, since devolution in 1999, for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and London Assembly. Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) are elected in one of two ways: (1) as first past the post...
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