How to Use proportional representation in a Sentence

proportional representation

noun

• So eight full seats of the left-wing side of Parliament have been erased and that gave more proportional representation to the right.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 24 July 2023
• First, and most important, the Supreme Court has held over and over again that there is no right to proportional representation.
  — Jason Torchinsky, National Review, 3 Oct. 2017
• The council polls were the first to be held under a new system that combines first-past-the-post with proportional representation.
  — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
• In Atlanta, King's hometown, the proportional representation of black-to-white workers is close to even in many fields.
  — Bob Salsberg and Angeliki Kastanis, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• But under Italy’s new electoral rules almost 40% of the seats will be decided on a first-past-the-post basis, the rest by proportional representation (PR).
  — The Economist, 21 Feb. 2018
• That’s one reason why none of the major parties, on either side of the Atlantic, thinks proportional representation is any good.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2022
• About a third of the members of both houses of parliament will be elected on a first-past-the-post basis; the remainder by proportional representation.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2017
• The system of proportional representation to be used in elections will diminish the power of big parties, compared with a first-past-the-post system.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• If two Latino characters were added to every film across the 100 top movies each year to set a new norm, and this process was repeated over three years, proportional representation would be achieved.
  — Stacy L. Smith, Time, 27 Aug. 2019
• The new law mandates proportional representation for 15 districts — down from the previous 22 — while allowing the thousands of Lebanese living abroad to vote for the first time.
  — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 4 May 2018
• The bars are a proportional representation of how far below state averages these districts scored in each year.
  — Patrick O'Donnell, cleveland.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• The bottom line: Voters in Georgia would need to elect 24 more moms to hit proportional representation with the U.S. adult population, per the report.
  — Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
• For many electoral reform groups, the answer is simple: switch to a new system of proportional representation, in which seats are awarded based on a party’s vote share.
  — Katie Marie Davies, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 July 2024
• Other districts in the same states as those high-growth areas, however, will have to expand to rebalance the proportional representation of the U.S. House.
  — Chad Day, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2021
• This year’s vote is according to a new election law that is based on proportional representation.
  — Washington Post, 6 May 2018
• This is part of the U.S. system of proportional representation called for by the Constitution.
  — Devon Link, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2020
• Neuquén has five deputies in the Chamber, with three being renewed this year, and with the seats allocated via the d’Hondt formula of proportional representation.
  — Baker Institute, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• The nine councilors are elected at large through a system known as proportional representation, in which voters rank their choices.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023
• The election that day is being fought using a new system that combines proportional representation with first-past-the-post contests in almost 40% of the seats (see article).
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• This year’s vote was according to a new election law providing for proportional representation for the first time.
  — Washington Post, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2018
• Some of the variance in the offspring is going to be due to the fact that the offspring don't receive a perfect proportional representation of their parent's alleles in terms of aggregate effect size.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2011
• In a proportional representation system — in place in countries such as Germany and New Zealand — the results would have looked very different.
  — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
• That law was replaced this year with one awarding seats by proportional representation, but complications to the law worked to keep outsiders from taking a larger share.
  — Philip Issa, Fox News, 7 May 2018
• In an unprecedented move, four Arab parties backed Gantz, but proportional representation still got the better of them.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
• For a place as diverse as Los Angeles, proportional representation could result in a City Council that is more reflective of the city and its interests.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2022
• Through a complicated process involving both first-past-the-post and proportional representation, seats in the Bundestag are distributed among the parties.
  — Eloise Barry, Time, 27 Sep. 2021
• Not only did about 67 percent of the movies fall below proportional representation of the AAPI community — almost 40 percent failed to include a single member of the group.
  — NBC News, 21 May 2021
• If there was proportional representation in the U.S. Senate, cannabis would be legal already.
  — Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2021
• One way to solve that problem would be to stop awarding electors on a winner-take-all basis and shift to a proportional representation system, in which each candidate receives a share of the state’s electors proportional to their share of the vote.
  — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020
• Since the 1980s, the Democratic Party has mandated that states use some form of proportional representation to allocate delegates based on the results of the primaries and caucuses.
  — Caitlin Jewitt, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024