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Direct Party and Representative Voting (DPR)

Direct Party and Representative Voting (DPR) is a plurality voting system designed for a party based parliamentary democracy such as the House of Commons (lower house) in the UK, modified to result in power being exercised by the parties in accordance with the overall votes cast in the election (PR). The system incorporates separate votes for the party of government, and the constituency members.

In the Government vote, each voter casts a single vote and these votes are aggregated across the country. The Constituency member vote is conducted, as at present, by the ‘First past the post system’ within a single member constituency.

This system does not result in proportional representation in terms of members elected to the chamber. PR government is achieved by scaling the voting strength of each party in the Chamber in proportion to the overall percentage of votes cast for that party in the Government vote. Members of each party exercise a fractional vote. The value of this fraction is determined by the ratio of the percentage of votes achieved by their party divided by the percentage of members of that party elected to the chamber. Machine readable card voting within the chamber simplifies the vote counting and recording process.