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ELECTORAL SYSTEM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A legal system for making democratic choices
Synonyms:
electoral system; voting system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("electoral system" is a kind of...):
legal system (a system for interpreting and enforcing the laws)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electoral system"):
scrutin uninomial system; scrutin uninominal voting system; single-member system; uninominal system; uninominal voting system (based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district)
list system; scrutin de liste; scrutin de liste system (based on the principle of proportional representation; voters choose between party lists, the number elected from each list being determined by the percentage cast for each list out of the total vote)
