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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
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.
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 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.
Voting is done using paper and manual counting. The voter gets pre-printed ballot papers (bulletin) from a table at the entrance of the voting office (mail-in voting is not allowed in France [7]). There is one ballot paper for each candidate, pair of candidates (for departmental elections) or list.
Some countries use a modified form of the two-round system, such as Ecuador where a candidate in the presidential election is declared the winner if they receive 40% of the vote and are 10% ahead of their nearest rival, [5] or Argentina (45% plus 10% ahead), where the system is known as ballotage.
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Germany, where the 1949 elections were held under a mixed single vote system that used plurality rule on the lower tier and was overall proportional on the regional tier. The country subsequently changed the system to two-vote MMP. [1] Countries that currently use such systems are: Lesotho switched to a mixed single vote version of MMP in 2002.