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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cartman: [QB] "So how then are seats assigned to individual party members to represent their party's percentage?" First, the total number of votes is divided by the number of seats (which is fixed). The resulting figure is the election divisor. Then the number of votes each party has gathered is split by that divisor to determine how many Second Chamber seats that party can occupy. Now, during the national (Second Chamber) elections every party also supplies its own candidates for the position of MP, people cast votes for them based on whom they'd most like as their representatives, and then they slug it out amongst themselves to disburse the seats. B) "Is there any link between seats and geographical areas?" No, not anymore. There are twelve provinces that hold elections every two years (they in turn elect the First Chamber), but the coloration of a province almost never reflects the final composition of the Second Chamber, because the country is organized in 19 election zones of equal population size to ensure proper regional diffusion. "Do you vote for people, or parties?" Both. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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