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Proportional Representation: Voters
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Proportional Representation (PR) is the method by which voters under Plan E elect members of the City Council and School Comittee. It ensures minority representation with majority control. Any group of voters that numbers more than one-tenth of the total population can be sure of electing at least one member of a nine-member Council, but a majority group of voters can be sure of electing a majority of the Council.
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Proportional representation (PR) is based on the principle that any group of like-minded voters should win legislative seats in proportion to its share of the popular vote. Whereas the winner-take-all principle awards 100 percent of the representation to a 50.1 percent majority, PR allows voters in a minority to win their fair share of representation.
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"Neither the Conservatives nor the Liberals have any interest in creating proportional representation," NDP House leader Peter Kormos told reporters yesterday. knowing full well that they can continue to exclude the interests of a huge number of voters."
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CIVS supports an experimental mode in which it can be used to select multiple candidates while enforcing proportional representation. Roughly speaking, a set of voters can only influence the selection of a fraction of the selected candidates that is proportional to the number of voters.
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