Additional Member System

noun

1. a system of voting in which people vote separately for the candidate and the party of their choice. Parties are allocated extra seats if the number of constituencies they win does not reflect their overall share of the vote See also proportional representation

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The additional member system balanced things out as it is designed to do - with just under half of the vote, the SNP got just under half the seats on offer overall.

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The Scottish Parliament has used the Additional Member System - a form of proportional representation - since its inception in 1999.

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Ideally, in parliamentary elections this would mix the national with the local by retaining constituency links, such as the single transferable vote or the additional member system.

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Scotland's Additional Member System sees 73 constituency MSPs elected through first-past-the-post and 56 regional MSPs elected, from eight electoral regions, through a form of proportional representation.

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The election uses the Additional Member System, which means people are given two votes to select:

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