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Accordingly, the five-percent hurdle and the Grundmandat-clause (one direct mandate was sufficient to join the Bundestag) were valid merely in the federal states. 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.
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
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.
In Germany, the state list or state electoral proposal, (German: Landesliste or Landeswahlvorschlag) is the list of candidates of a party for the election to the Bundestag, or the elections to those state parliaments with mixed-member proportional representation and for the European Parliament elections if a party decides on a state rather than a federal list. [1]
The Muhlenberg legend is an urban legend in the United States and Germany. According to the legend, the single vote of Frederick Muhlenberg, the first-ever Speaker of the US House of Representatives, prevented German from becoming an official language of the United States. The story has a long history and has been told in several variations ...
Proportional representation is the most widely used electoral system for national legislatures, with the parliaments of over eighty countries elected by various forms of the system. Party-list proportional representation is the single most common electoral system and is used by 80 countries, and involves voters voting for a list of candidates ...
This number, from January 2023, is based on voters who live in counties or states that use ranked-choice voting. The system has grown over the past two decades with 53 or so cities using it today.
The third type of mixed single vote system is the single vote equivalent of parallel voting (sometimes called direct vote transfer [11]), which uses the same vote on both the majoritarian and proportional tiers.