noun

• An electoral system of proportional representation in which people vote for a party rather than a candidate and seats are filled from lists of candidates according to each party's share of the vote.

  ‘Worse still, the party list system encourages internal politics rather than any attempt to get out and engage with the voters.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The two to three point drop in support implied by these figures could mean not only the loss of the party's by-election gain in Ayr, but also no less than six of the 18 party list seats it won four years ago.’
  • ‘But you have to guess in advance whether your first preference party might benefit from having your party list vote or not!’
  • ‘Third, they could adopt a party list proportional representation system, effective at this election.’
  • ‘It has a man who has been elected through the party list and who has been rejected by the electorate twice, in two elections.’
  • ‘The election is supposed to be held under a party list system, where voters pick not candidates but political parties.’
  • ‘South Africa's system is currently based on proportional representation, based on a party list system.’
  • ‘The City of Johannesburg has 217 councillors, made up of 109 ward councillors who are directly elected, and 108 councillors who are elected in terms of a party list system’
  • ‘This acts as a genuine barrier to the adoption of anything like a party list system.’