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2 unusual facts about proportional representation


Nobuhide Tachi

On May 21, 2010, Your Party announced that Tachi would represent the party as a proportional candidate in the 2010 House of Councillors election.

Yukio Iketani

He represented Democratic Party as a proportional candidate in the Summer 2010 House of Councillors election but lost.


Ayr by-election, 2000

The Labour Party in the South of Scotland region had won 7 seats, all as first past the post constituencies and none on the list system through proportional representation, whilst the Conservative and Unionists had won 4 seats in South of Scotland through the proportional representation system.

David Risstrom

In 1999, Risstrom became the first member of the Australian Greens to be elected to public office anywhere in the state of Victoria when he was elected to Melbourne City Council with 9% of the primary vote under the proportional representation electoral system then in place.

Electoral district of Willoughby

With the introduction of proportional representation, it was absorbed into the multi-member electorate of Ryde along with Burwood and Gordon.

Emigdio Flores Calpiñeiro

In 1997 he was elected from Pando, through the proportional representation vote as a Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) candidate.

Juan Carlos Riss Cecin

An economist by profession, Riss Cecin served as a parliamentarian in the Chamber of Deputies 1989–1993, Senator 1993–1997 and again in the Chamber of Deputies (elected from Pando through proportional representation on the list of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement).

Local government in Ukraine

Municipal councils are elected by a proportional system: members are elected from electoral lists of candidates.

Rajya Sabha members from Andhra Pradesh

Elections in within the state legislatures are held using Single transferable vote with proportional representation.

Saúl Guillermo Klinsky Callaú

In 1997 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies from Santa Cruz through the proportional representation vote as a Civic Solidarity Union (UCS) candidate.

Single-issue politics

Single-issue politics may express itself through the formation of a single-issue party, an approach that tends to be more successful in parliamentary systems based on proportional representation than in rigid two-party systems (like that of the United States).

Thomas Henley

Henley was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1904 representing Burwood as a member of the Liberal Reform Party, Liberal Party, Nationalist Party and United Australia Party until 1935, except for the period of proportional representation (1920–1927), when he was a member for Ryde.


see also

D'Hondt

D'Hondt method, a method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation political election systems

Elections in Northern Cyprus

The mitigated proportional representation system in use for legislative elections obligates each party to cross the 5% of the total vote election threshold in order to be seated in the 50-member parliament, which is chosen from five electoral districts, Lefkoşa (Nicosia), Gazimağusa (Famagusta), Girne (Kyrenia), Güzelyurt (Morphou) and İskele (Trikomo).

Luxembourg communal election, 2011

For the first time, Betzdorf, Frisange, Lorentzweiler, Roeser, Sandweiler, and Remich had populations over 3,000 each, meaning that their elections were held by proportional representation.

Naison Ndlovu

He was elected senator for Insiza in 2005 and returned to the senate under the proportional representation system in 2013, representing ZANU-PF in Matabeleland South.

Reyes Tamez

In 2009 he was elected via proportional representation to the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico as a New Alliance deputy hence he will be serving during the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress.

Scottish Green Party

In the first election to this Parliament, in 1999, the Scottish Green Party got one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) elected by proportional representation, Robin Harper, the UK's first Green Parliamentarian.