How Proportional Representation Elections Work

(Douglas J. Amy’s article direct from Mount Holyoke College’s PR Library in April 2005.)




We in the United States are very used
to our single-member district, winner-take-all style of elections. We've all
grown up with a system where we elect members of our legislatures one at a time
in small districts, with the winner being the candidate with the most votes.


This system seems so
"natural