About electing members to a representative body in proportion to their
parties' strength in the election, Dean Zimmerman wrote, "I believe the
Parliament of the United Kingdom is elected in just such a way -- correct me
if I am wrong. Perhaps others know of where such a system is in place now
and has a more detailed and specific description of how it works."
The UK Parliament is elected in single-member constituencies by
plurality, as is the US Congress. The system that I know of that is closest
to what Dean describes is the Swedish Riksdag, where each political party
lists its candidates in an order, the voter votes for a political party
rather than an individual candidate, and the candidates are elected off the
parties' lists in the order determined by the parties and the number based
on the votes cast for each party. There is a fairly detailed description of
the system available online at
http://www.agora.stm.it/elections/parliaments.htm.
BRM
Brian Melendez
Ward 3 (St. Anthony West)
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