Parliament than they can possibly secure with single-member areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

In England, with the system of single-member constituencies, Unionist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

Australia was not prevented by a system of single-member constituencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

But what kind of local representation does a system of single-member constituencies provide?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

The single-member system seems to imply a belief that the elector's liberty of choice must be narrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

Systems, viz., the adoption of the alternative vote (the transferable vote in single-member constituencies).    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

The German Reichstag, which consists of 397 members, is elected by a system of single-member constituencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

Borough elections the majority, as in a single-member constituency, can obtain the whole of the representation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

It will, therefore, be sufficient to consider what effect the alternative vote would have in single-member areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

The combined results of these two districts disclose the crowning weakness of a system of single-member constituencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

Australia and in England, or why numerous parties and single-member constituencies go hand in hand both in France and Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

The vote becomes a more valuable possession to the elector under proportional representation than under the single-member system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

Election of 1874 -- although the system of single-member constituencies had not then been made general -- are equally instructive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

It has already been shown that the practice of "nursing" a constituency is one of the indirect results of the single-member system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

Since the Redistribution Act of 1885, when the system of single-member constituencies was made general, there have been eight General.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

A noteworthy feature of these divisions was the size of the majority by which the system of single-member constituencies was condemned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

With the single-member system more than a quarter of a million of Scottish Unionists only obtained representation as it were by accident.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

Mr. Robertson's Bill, as originally introduced in 1906, was applicable to single-member constituencies only; but the amended form in which the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

South African National Convention adhered to their original proposal to abandon single-member constituencies, they would have secured for South.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

In Germany and France single-member constituencies have not arrested the development of groups with national, religious, or sectional programmes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

In Britain's "first past the post" elections for single-member districts, by contrast, extremists can win a parliamentary seat with a third of the vote.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death Of Tory England] Reference

In the first place, the candidate to be successful need only obtain a much smaller proportion of the total number of votes than in a single-member constituency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

The administrative areas (with some exceptions) were then divided into single-member constituencies, but it was soon found how unsatisfactorily this system works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

On the other hand, it has been demonstrated beyond any doubt that a system of single-member constituencies has completely failed to maintain the two-party system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

Owing to the agreement between the leaders of the Liberal and Conservative parties in favour of single-member constituencies this movement had no immediate result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

The system in no way acts as a corrective to the anomalies arising from single-member constituencies, and may even accentuate the violent changes associated with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

Finland is divided into sixteen electoral districts returning from six to twenty-three members, with the one exception of Lapland, which is a single-member constituency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

So long as single-member constituencies are retained elections must necessarily take the form of a struggle for the whole of the representation allotted to the constituency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

If a referendum is really wanted, a general election with single-member constituencies does not give us a secure result, and an election under proportional representation would ensure it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

English electoral system of second ballots or the transferable vote in single-member constituencies will show that neither reform will solve the problem presented by the rise of a new party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

This allegation may be wholly unfounded, but the single-member system encourages such a proceeding, and the statement at least indicates how the voting power of a division may be manipulated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

The only occasion on which the criticism has any force is when, in filling the last seats, the conditions are analogous to those which obtain in a three-cornered fight in a single-member constituency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

In 2005, they were given final say via plebiscite over constitutional amendments, and the same round of reform will create single-member legislative districts rather than the current multi-member ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cleaning the Straits] Reference

Kingdom, with the exception of London, was a parliamentary unit, yet the system of single-member constituencies made general by that Act is now regarded by many as another essential and permanent feature of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

Before considering the value of the transferable vote in single-member constituencies as a means of securing a true expression of the national will, it may perhaps be pointed out that the procedure prescribed by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

The party which can obtain the support of a majority of the electors can carry its list to the exclusion of all others; minorities are crushed even more completely than with the system of single-member constituencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference