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Tom Monto

District-level PR with no top-up - which countries use it?

District level list PR (with no top-up) is used in these countries:


Europe

Portugal,

Spain,

Slovenia,

Serbia,

Croatia,

Belgium,

Iceland,

Estonia and

Latvia,

Poland,

Luxembourg,

Liechtenstein,

Turkey,

Bulgaria,

Romania,

Czechia,


Asia

Indonesia,

East Timor,


Americas

most of Central America except for Mexico and Belize

Brazil

Argentina,

Peru.

Ecuador

Paraguay's Chamber of Deputies,


Africa

Morocco's lower house,

Algeria's lower house


DR Congo .


Why is the District-level PR system with no top-up important?

District-level PR with no top-up could be the PR system that will be used in Canada.

it is not likely that constitutionally Canada can use a system where votes cross provincial borders

and district-level PR with no country-wide top-up is just such a system as long as the districts themselves do not cross provincial borders.


Its use in so many countries shows that it works and can work here in Canada.


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Angola uses an element of nation-wide reprsentation, which would not work in Canada.

Angola looks to me like parallel system, not list PR without top-up.

from wiki: The 220 members of the National Assembly are elected by two methods. Ninety are elected in 18 five-seat constituencies, by party-list proportional representation using the d'Hondt method. The other 130 are selected by party-list proportional representation using closed lists, allocated proportionally to the nationwide vote tallies

Its use of nationwide vote tallies means it is not likely to be system used in Canada

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