Discuss the proportional representation election system in detail.
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Proportional Representation Election System-
1.It is an election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
2.If a party gets 40% of the total votes, for example, a perfectly proportional system would allow it to get 40% of the seats.
3.The system of proportional representation has many variants, out of which two systems are most popular viz. List system and System of single transferable vote.
4.In order to achieve this fair representation, all PR systems have certain basic characteristics — characteristics that set them apart from our current election system.
5.They all use multi-member districts. Instead of electing one person in each district, several people are elected.
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