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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the essential measure to secure and entrench lasting reform we will introduce fair votes by proportional representation for Parliamentary elections.
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At the political level, proportional representation was abolished for local elections in 1922 and for Stormont elections in 1929.
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But it will be no more than second-best representation, and certainly not proportional representation .
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Elections to a lower house of parliament would be by proportional representation and an upper house would be appointed by provincial governments.
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Half of the 400 national representatives would be elected on a constituency basis and the other half by proportional representation .
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Home rule and proportional representation are the means by which we shall break the stranglehold of Westminster.
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It is elected for a five-year term by a system of proportional representation .