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Originally posted by Flames Draft Watcher@May 18 2005, 04:22 PM
I've heard we're one of the few democracies that doesn't have proportional representaiton although I haven't seen all the numbers.
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Perhaps this
link might shed some light on this for you.
It is from May 1997 (sorry, best I could find so far).
Individually, First Past the Post systems are the most popular, with 68 out of 211 nation-states and related territories giving them 32 percent of the total, followed by the 66 cases of List PR systems (31 percent)
If we look at electoral systems in "established democracies" (i.e., those states with a population of more than a quarter of a million which have held continuing free elections for over 20 years), then we find that proportional representation systems are more numerous with 21 (59 percent) out of the 36 states