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Comment: Proportional representation.

  • UPSC 1996
  • 20 marks
  • Party System

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Proportional representation (PR) is the family of electoral systems that allocates seats to parties roughly in proportion to their votes, so that a legislature mirrors opinion rather than rewarding whoever finishes first locally. The idea took modern shape in Thomas Hare's Treatise on the Election of Representatives (1859), and John Stuart Mill championed it in…

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