mixed-member proportional

Definitions

A voting system used in Germany and New Zealand in which voters get two votes, one for a local representative MP and one for a political party, and in which the number of seats that a party gets in parliament is based on the percentage of votes that the party receives.

uncountable

Examples

“First, by abolishing the closed party lists for more than a half of the Chamber of Deputies, the mixed-member proportional system would help⟳ create⟳ direct⟳ linkages between parties, constituencies, and legislators.”

“Though this distribution would generally be sufficient to provide⟳ full proportionality, linkage between the tiers was based on votes rather than seats, and it is for this reason⟳ that the system is classified as MMM with partial compensation rather than full mixed-member proportional (MMP).”

“The mixed member proportional (MMP) entails the linking of two types of elections -- the PR and the majority/plurality types.”

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