A direct proportional election would give the advantage of incumbency to parties in power and eliminate local grass-roots campaigns that have provided the handful of dissenting voices heard on the Duma floor.

The proportional election to the House of Councillors allows the voters to cast a preference vote for a single candidate on a party list.

She won the proportional elections in Pleven Province with 36.92%, or 54,880 votes.

Latvia's right to self-determination was implemented in April 1920, when the people of Latvia gave their mandate to the Constituent Assembly chosen by universal, equal, direct and proportional elections.

The relative strengths of the parties vary only slightly in the elections due to the proportional election from multi-member districts but there are some visible long-term trends.

The party gained 0.85% of total vote in 2012 General Election(7th most in 20 parties of proportional election), thus failed take a seat in National Assembly.

The Finnish Associations Act lists three different modifications of the Borda count for holding a proportional election.

In 2006 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies with the highest percentage ever achieved by a single candidate in a proportional election - 16.7%.

Tel Aviv is governed by a 31-member city council elected for a five-year term in direct proportional elections.

Some nations with proportional elections, like Israel and the Netherlands, have one electoral district only: the entire nation, and the entire pie is cut up according to the entire outcome.