3 reasons why New Zealand has the best-designed government in the world | Vox

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The best proportional representation (PR) system is a twist on party-list voting known as mixed-member PR, or MMP for short.

MMP has voters select both a candidate in their local district and a party they’d like to win a majority.

Everyone who wins a district gets a seat, and then additional seats are given out to ensure that parties are represented in proportion to their share of the party vote. This has a number of advantages.

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