scrutin de liste
- noun
- Specialized
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sistema de listas
- The election adopted a scrutin de liste, allowing smaller parties to gain parliamentary seats.
Examples
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Several European countries use the scrutin de liste to ensure fair representation of minority parties.
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Political analysts debated the effectiveness of scrutin de liste systems in coalition governments.
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The scrutin de liste allows voters to choose their preferred party.
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Many countries use a scrutin de liste to ensure fair representation.
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Several European countries use the scrutin de liste to ensure fair representation of minority parties.
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The election adopted a scrutin de liste, allowing smaller parties to gain parliamentary seats.
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Political analysts debated the effectiveness of scrutin de liste systems in coalition governments.
Synonyms
An election method where people vote for party lists and parties get seats according to their votes
A voting method where people vote for party lists and seats match each list's share of votes
Surface Forms
Morphology
scrutin + de + liste
Although this is a French phrase, its meaning is transparently compositional: 'scrutin' = vote/election, 'de' = of, 'liste' = list, so a learner who knows those words can infer an electoral system based on lists (i.e. seats allocated to party lists). The same construction maps straightforwardly to cross‑linguistic terms like 'party‑list' or 'list voting', so the sense is immediately derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Scrutin de liste comes from the French words scrutin meaning 'vote' and liste meaning 'list', so imagine choosing a whole list of names at once instead of one person. So seats are given to each list according to how many votes it gets, and that's why the phrase means an election system where voters pick party lists rather than single candidates.
