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Sep 25, 2021 20 tweets 5 min read
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A comparison of Scotland's Additional Member System (AMS) and Germany's Mixed-Member Proportional system (MMP).

*A thread as Germany goes to the polls today *

#GermanElection2021 #wahl2021 #ProportionalRepresentation

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The Scottish Parliament has 129 seats in total.

73 of these are single-member districts where the candidate with the most vote wins.

The other 56 are list seats designed to reduce the inherent disproportionality of the FPTP element.

Voters get one ballot for each.

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