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Proportional Representation Electoral Systems
In Nepal when people talk about "proportional representation" they often mean a system under which each ethnic or other group is represented proportionately to their presence in the population as a whole
In most countries this expression usually refers to an election system in which the percentage of votes that a party has in a legislature (or a constituent assembly) is as close as possible to the percentage of support shown for that party in elections.
In Nepal the second election for the CA is to be proportional in both senses. If you want to understand more about proportional representation in the general sense, you can read more on the website of the ACE project: click here, and then click on " proportional representation".
Essentially the same information has been published as a Handbook on Electoral System Design by International IDEA. Click here and you can download it chapter by chapter in pdf format. That has also been translated into Nepali: click here.
To read a pdf document you will need Adobe Acrobat - download this here:
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