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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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If a pure form of proportional representation had been used in 2001 we would have had a hung parliament.
Seven Australian parliamentary chambers are elected using proportional representation, and four use optional preferential voting.
The system of proportional representation used meant candidates were elected from a ranked list depending how many votes their party got.
Elections were built around universal suffrage and proportional representation.
The majority of speakers advocated adopting a system of proportional representation in British Columbia.
If vote-splitting is not an issue for discussion in the election post-mortem, then proportional representation should be.

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