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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

When you say proportional representation--is that to say the number of representatives per state is decided by the population level? If so that sounds great.

But without districts and candidates therein, how would you determine who is voting for what?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    The % of the vote a party gets is the % of the reps they get.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    And the party chooses the reps, or how is that done?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    There are a couple of ways to go about it. A common way is open party-list proportional representation. Each party puts forward a list of candidates. The number of elected candidates depends on the proportion of votes with respect to the total (e.g. 10% of votes with 100 total seats means 10 seats for that party), where those candidates who received the most votes within the party list get elected.

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