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A single-vote system was used. Using this single vote, the voter elected both a state party list and a direct candidate of the same party from his electoral district. Therefore, the voter did not have the possibility to give separate, independent votes for the person or the direct candidate and the party or the list.
Parallel voting: Single non-transferable vote (148 seats) Party-list proportional representation (100 seats) House of Representatives: Lower chamber of legislature Parallel voting: First-past-the-post (289 seats) Party-list proportional representation (176 seats) Jordan: King: Head of state Hereditary monarchy Senate: Upper chamber of legislature
Germany's reformed voting system aims to blend British- or American-style single-member constituencies with the proportionality characteristic of most continental European countries.
This is caused by larger parties winning additional single-member constituencies above the totals determined by their proportional party vote. Germany has a multi-party system with two historically strong political parties and some other third parties also represented in the Bundestag. Since 1990, and including the results of the most recent ...
An electoral system (or voting system) is a set of rules that determine how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined. Some electoral systems elect a single winner (single candidate or option), while others elect multiple winners, such as members of parliament or boards of directors.
The spare vote [8] is a version of single transferable voting applied to the ranking of parties, first proposed for elections in Germany in 2013. [9] The spare vote system includes the step of transferring the votes of eliminated choices to the next-indicated choice, but it does not transfer surplus votes.
Under Germany's mixed member proportional system of election, the Bundestag has 299 constituencies (Wahlkreise (German: [ˈvaːlˌkʁaɪ̯zə] ⓘ), electoral districts), each of which may elect one member of the Bundestag by first-past-the-post voting (a plurality of votes).
For each de jure and de facto sovereign state and dependent territory an article on elections in that entity has been included and information on the way the head of state, head of government, and the legislature is selected.