At this occasion the electoral system was changed to proportional representation.

It is formed of five members elected by the people using a system of Proportional Representation.

Proportional representation in primary and secondary education

Proof positive that proportional representation can produce strange outcomes.

The Liberal Democrats want MPs to be elected by proportional representation.

The current electoral system, in place since 2002 and based on proportional representation ensures that no party can emerge with an outright majority.

In addition, the Bundestag has a minimum threshold of either 5 of the national party vote or three (directly elected) constituency representatives for a party to gain additional representation through the system of proportional representation.

The National Assembly is composed of 92 men and women representatives, elected by universal, equal, direct, free and secret suffrage, under the system of proportional representation.

The size of the elected legislature and the basis of election in Vanuatu requires that the electoral system includes an element of proportional representation (Art 15 21).

There was renewed debate on the single non transferable vote electoral system chosen provided for in the original electoral law, with some political figures favouring proportional representation.

Today the only US city that uses proportional representation is the leftist bastion of Cambridge Massachusetts.

Article 17(1) of the Constitution provides for election of members of Parliament on the basis of universal franchise through an electoral system that has an element of proportional representation to ensure fair representation of different political groups and opinions.

As a result, more than half of the 56 members elected through proportional representation in 2004 were women.

The Proportional Representation of Women in Educational Management Posts Act (WEV) came into effect on 7 March 1997.

Proportional representation systems, where a political party's share in the national vote is reflected in its share of the legislative seats, may assist in the representation of minorities.

7.7 Included in the strategies to increase the visibility of women were voter education for women, training of potential women candidates, quota systems, a change to a proportional representation electoral system and research.

Should Nepal adopt a parliamentary system, an executive presidency, or some combination of the two? Should it employ the British first past the post electoral system traditionally used on the Indian subcontinent, or should it institute a form of proportional representation?

The primary goal of continues to be the proportional representation of women in influential positions in all sections of society.

Election to the Senate of Pakistan is conducted on the basis of proportional representation by means of single transferable vote.

Proportional representation, widely adopted in Europe in the first decades of the 20th century, was never embraced by the US because it is a system that would allow black representatives to be elected regularly.

The Greek Parliament (Βουλή των Ελλήνων) has 300 members, elected for a four year term by a system of reinforced proportional representation in 48 multi seat constituencies, 8 single seat constituencies and a single nationwide list.

The applicant, Mr. Jacomb, submitted that policies instituted by the union to ensure proportional representation by women in executive positions and equal representation by women as electoral delegates unlawfully discriminated against men.

Proportional representation is widely viewed as one factor that promotes the implementation of redistributive policies by providing a political voice to minorities.

Nationalist polled only 31.9 of the votes cast with parties supporting the union polling 59.6 . Proof positive that proportional representation can produce strange outcomes.

He gave me approximately the same answer when I referred to the need to change Israel s electoral system based on proportional representation, which produces weak majorities at best and near paralysis at worst. So what if the system is blocked to reform it would not make any difference!

In 2004, however, women more than doubled their share, to 13 , when 39 were elected from single seat constituencies and through party list proportional representation.

During the past decade, Italy has used a majority electoral system corrected by a proportional quota.

In the election for the National Assembly held on 25 May 2002, the party won 21 compensatory seats through proportional representation with 22.4 of the vote.

In addition, the Government thought that political parties, which are usually associated with list based systems, were not yet sufficiently developed to sustain proportional representation systems.

Provision is made for a proportional share of the 1993 financing of the Integrated Management Information System (IMIS).

In Europe, however, socialist and communist parties imposed electoral systems based on proportional representation precisely because they open the door to representatives of minorities (the communists and socialists themselves).

Even more fundamentally, racial considerations also influence the nature of America's political institutions. Proportional representation, widely adopted in Europe in the first decades of the 20th century, was never embraced by the US because it is a system that would allow black representatives to be elected regularly.

At the same time, the mission's interlocutors expressed confidence in finding consensus on the principles of the electoral law, including on proportional representation for the election of the legislative body.

He argued that the rules did not constitute special measures under the Sex Discrimination Act because they did not reflect attainable levels of representation which, in his view, would be proportional to the representation of women in the whole group and would be temporary.

One of the last acts of his government was to replace the majoritarian electoral system, introduced in 1993, with proportional rule.

Some of these children go through the justice system without having proper legal representation.

He held out the promise of proportional representation, which would ensure a greater number of parliamentary seats for the Liberal Democrats in future elections, in exchange for the party s support for a new Conservative government.

Moreover, in an electoral system in which two representatives are elected for each district, the minority has a clear advantage. Many Chileans today are demanding a radical change towards a proportional electoral system.

Its bombardment of Gaza is not proportional.

It builds up in the reactor in the rate proportional to the rate of fission, which is proportional to the reactor thermal power.

Anticipating that his party might lose the upcoming election if Ukraine s proportional voting system were maintained, Yanukovych has reverted to the electoral system of 2002, with only half of the 450 seats to be distributed proportionally.

However, on 3 June, President Abbas issued a decree postponing sine die the legislative elections set earlier for 17 July and referring to the need for a new electoral law that would introduce at least 50 per cent proportional representation.

The exercise of rights needed to be balanced and proportional.

(e) Participation and representation at conferences and meetings organized by Governments, the United Nations system and non governmental organizations.

A proportional system in the absence of individual preferences means that party secretaries, rather than citizens, will choose deputies, and, with no effective electoral threshold, the number of parties will proliferate.