PROPORTIONAL ELECTORAL SYSTEM: TYPES, FEATURES OF APPLICATION

Author(s): Mityaeva Yu.V.

Rubric: Constitutional and municipal law

DOI: 10.21777/2587-9472-2020-3-12-18

Release: 2020-3 (25)

Pages: 12-18

Keywords: electoral system, proportional electoral system, party list elections, elections, voters, political parties, voting

Annotation: This article discusses the features of the application of the proportional electoral system in Russia and abroad. The author’s goal is to analyze and formulate the main characteristics of the most common methods of voting under the proportional system, taking into account the historical aspect, as well as the practice of applying in modern states in elections to representative bodies of power, and the development of this political institution. This topic is relevant in connection with the use of all three election models in voting for certain elected bodies of state power and local self-government: majority, proportional and mixed. It often leads to a lack of understanding among the electorate of the features of using a particular model, its disadvantages and advantages, which in turn leads to an unwillingness to understand this and take part in voting, realizing their real capabilities. In the fall the legal culture of citizens, the decline of interest in the institution of elections in the formation of representative bodies at various levels of emphasis is the practice of applying the most common voting patterns in the world – under the proportional electoral system. Taking as a basis the European and Russian experience of elections, the author analyzes the main negative and positive aspects of the organization of vote by party-list proportional representation, in terms of the ability to highlight the level of elections that use this model election system is appropriate and combined it with the features of the form of government that existed in the state. As the main results, the characteristic features of the proportional voting model for representative bodies of power are formulated and also recommendations on the effective use of the proportional electoral system in elections are provided.

Bibliography: Mityaeva Yu.V. PROPORTIONAL ELECTORAL SYSTEM: TYPES, FEATURES OF APPLICATION // Journal of Legal Sciences. – 2020. – № 3 (25). – С. 12-18. doi: 10.21777/2587-9472-2020-3-12-18