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GCSE Citizenship Studies · key term
An electoral approach intended to give parties a share of seats closely matching their share of votes.
Used by AQA and Edexcel
Paper 1
Revise: Alternative Voting SystemsProportional representation (PR) aims to bring those shares closer together. Suppose a party receives 30% of the votes: a proportional result would give it roughly 30% of the seats. PR is a family of systems, not one particular way of voting.
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An approach to elections designed to make parties’ shares of seats broadly reflect their shares of votes.
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Proportional representation, or PR, describes approaches designed to make parties’ shares of seats broadly reflect their shares of votes. There are different PR systems; they do not all use the same ballot or constituency arrangements.
A voting system intended to give parties a share of seats broadly corresponding to their share of the vote.
