mixed-member proportional

Noun

uncountable

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.

Japanese Meaning

混合比例代表制 ― 有権者が地方の代表（小選挙区の候補者）と政党に票を投じ、政党の得票率に基づいて議席が割り当てられる選挙制度

What is this buttons?

New Zealand's adoption of a mixed-member proportional system in the 1990s transformed its parliament by combining local constituency MPs with party-list seats allocated according to each party's share of the vote.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

ニュージーランドが1990年代に混合比例代表制を採用したことで、小選挙区で選ばれる議員と各政党の得票率に応じて配分される比例名簿による議席を組み合わせた議会へと変わりました。

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Sense（1）

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.

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