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The binomial system (Spanish: Sistema binominal) is a voting system that was used in the legislative elections of Chile between 1989 and 2013. [1]The binomial system is the D'Hondt method with an open list where every constituency returns two (hence the name) representatives to the legislative body.
This binomial voting system was established by the military dictatorship that ruled Chile until 1990, limiting the proportional system in place until 1973 to two seats per district or constituency. The dictatorship used gerrymandering to create electoral districts that favored rightist parties, with a positive bias towards the more conservative ...
Between 1989 and 2013, elections in Chile were carried out following a binomial voting system, which was prescribed in 1980 during the Military dictatorship of Chile. The binomial system was considered by most analysts as the main constitutional lock that prevented completion of the Chilean transition to democracy.
Since 2017, Chile's congress has been elected through open list proportional representation under the D'Hondt method. Before 2017, a unique binomial system was used. These system rewards coalition slates. Each coalition could run two candidates for each electoral district's two Chamber seats.
Binomial coefficient, ... a voting system used in the parliamentary elections of Chile between 1989 and 2013;
In 2016, the number of political parties in Chile doubled, increasing from 14 to 32. It came as a precursor to the municipal elections of the year and the Parliamentary Elections of 2017, [7] given that they will be the first to be held under the new proportional electoral system, the replacement for the binomial system. The binomial system ...
Multi-seat constituencies were reestablished, replacing the previous binomial system of two seats per district, installed by the outgoing Pinochet dictatorship in 1989. [2] [3] Starting with this election, Chile's congress was elected through open list proportional representation under the D'Hondt method. Also for the first time, a 40% gender ...
At the other extreme, the binomial electoral system used in Chile between 1989 and 2013, [51] a nominally proportional open-list system, featured two-member districts. In some of those elections a party with more than a quarter of the vote in a district was ignored.