Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mixed-member proportional

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English

Syllables: mixed-mem-ber pro-por-tion-al
IPA

43

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A voting system used in Germany and New Zealand in which voters get two votes, one for a local representative MP and one for a political party, and in which the number of seats that a party gets in parliament is based on the percentage of votes that the party receives.

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Example Sentences

"First, by abolishing the closed party lists for more than a half of the Chamber of Deputies, the mixed-member proportional system would help create direct linkages between parties, constituencies, and legislators."
"Though this distribution would generally be sufficient to provide full proportionality, linkage between the tiers was based on votes rather than seats, and it is for this reason that the system is classified as MMM with partial compensation rather than full mixed-member proportional (MMP)."
"The mixed member proportional (MMP) entails the linking of two types of elections -- the PR and the majority/plurality types."

Usage

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Questions

What does mixed-member proportional mean?: A voting system used in Germany and New Zealand in which voters get two votes, one for a local representative MP and one for a political party, and in which the number of seats that a party gets in parliament is based on the percentage of votes that the party receives.

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