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What is proportional representation?

What is proportional representation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A voting principle aimed at securing a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates (usually political parties) obtain in elections, and the percentage of seats they receive in the elected body.
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The only solution that will solve all the list problems is to switch to the single transferable vote system of proportional representation.
Elections were built around universal suffrage and proportional representation.
The system of proportional representation used meant candidates were elected from a ranked list depending how many votes their party got.
My call for compulsory voting is coupled with a call for proportional representation.
Seats in the assembly will be allocated by proportional representation using a list system.
The only real way of addressing this democratic deficit is to change the voting system and introduce proportional representation.

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