electoral system
Noun
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A legal system for making democratic choices (synset 105912729)
referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authorityis a type of: legal system - a system for interpreting and enforcing the lawssubtypes:
- scrutin uninomial system, scrutin uninominal voting system, single-member system, uninominal system, uninominal voting system - based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district
- list system, scrutin de liste, scrutin de liste system - based on the principle of proportional representation; voters choose between party lists, the number elected from each list being determined by the percentage cast for each list out of the total vote
same as: voting system
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