Table of voting systems by nation

This table deals with voting to select candidates for office, not for the passing of legislation.

Voting systems by country

Key

; Seats per district : Most elections are split into a number of districts (for example, a constituency). In some elections, there is one person elected per district. In others, there are many people elected per district.; Total number of seats : the number of representatives elected to the body in total.; Election threshold : see Election threshold; FPTP : Using the system of FPTP voting to pick a single winner per district; Party list : One of many Party-list proportional representation systems. Where possible, this has been replaced by the allocation system used within the party-list (e.g. D'Hondt method); Parallel voting : This means that two simultaneous systems are used to elect representatives to the same body. If there is interchange between the two systems (e.g. the number elected in one system affects the number elected in the other) then this is called the additional member system.

See also

* List of countries
* Voting system

External links

* [http://www.aceproject.org ACE Electoral Knowledge Network] Expert site providing encyclopedia on Electoral Systems and Management, country by country data, a library of electoral materials, latest election news, the opportunity to submit questions to a network of electoral experts, and a forum to discuss all of the above
* [http://www.idea.int/publications/esd/index.cfm A Handbook of Electoral System Design] from [http://www.idea.int International IDEA]
* [http://www.aceproject.org/ace-en/topics/es Electoral Design Reference Materials] from the [http://www.aceproject.org ACE Project]
* [http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/parlinesearch.asp PARLINE database] from the [http://www.ipu.org/english/home.htm Inter-Parliamentary Union]
* [http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/globalrights/prindex.html Project for Global Democracy and Human Rights] This page links to a [http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/globalrights/democracy/table-pr.html table] and a [http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/globalrights/democracy/maps-pr.html world map] that is color coded by the primary electoral system used by each country.

References

Much of the data on Bulgaria from [http://www.is-bg.net/cik2005/news.php?id=30&sub=3m Central electoral committee] - "Methods for determining the number of mandates in constituencies and the results of the vote" (in Bulgarian); A mathematical analysis of the system [http://nbu.bg/PUBLIC/IMAGES/File/departamenti/informatika/4.pdf]

Much of the data regarding which voting system is used is drawn from [http://www.idea.int/esd/data/world.cfm this 2002 report] from the [http://www.idea.int International Insititute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA)]

Much of the data regarding the size of the parliaments comes from [http://www.idea.int/publications/esd/english/esd_english_part2.pdf this 1997 report] from the same Institute.

Some of the data has been updated since then.