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Atlas of Electoral Systems of the World

method of election of unicameral legislature or lower house of bicameral legislature

no direct parliamentary elections
plurality representation (first past the post)
majority representation (two round system)
block vote
alternative vote
parallel (semi-proportional) representation
list proportional representation
mixed member proportional representation
single transferable vote (preference or choice voting)

last updated: 25 January 2003

source: Handbook of Electoral System Design (Stockholm, Sweden: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 1997)

© 1996 Andrew Reding, Project Director and Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute


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