mixed-member proportional

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

mixed-member proportional
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