The Netherlands: The Sanctity of Proportionality
The Netherlands: The Sanctity of Proportionality
Under the Dutch electoral system, voters can only express a choice for an individual candidate, and these votes are treated as a choice for a particular party. The parties do not encourage preference voting, and the preference votes have only a small impact on the original list ordering of the parties. The Netherlands has a large, open-party system with very low barriers to entry. Electoral reform has been on the agenda for many years, with some form of a mixed-member proportional system being the most likely alternative. However, no fundamental reform has been implemented.
Keywords: list PR, proportionality, preference voting, apparentement, electoral reform
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