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PARLINE: Search Modules At a glance   Structure   Seats   Term   Presidents   Women parliamentarians   Electoral systems   Mode of designation Recent elections New in PARLINE Toolbox Photo gallery About News feeds Related sections: Promoting democracy Women parliamentarians Women in politics database Questions and comments	HOME -> PARLINE -> AT A GLANCE -> ELECTORAL SYSTEMS     Parliaments at a glance:   Electoral systems PARLINE recognises three groups of electoral systems: Majority (including First Past the Post, Alternative Vote and the Two-Round system), Proportional and Mixed (which combine elements from majority and proportional systems). The Others category includes a number of situations, and particularly parliamentary chambers whose members are appointed or indirectly elected. This is notably the case of certain second chambers of bicameral parliaments. CURRENT QUERY: All regions, all parliamentary structures Copyright © 2016 Inter-Parliamentary Union   Dataset Electoral systems Number of countries Majority 93 ( 34.19 %) Mixed 42 ( 15.44 %) Proportional 86 ( 31.62 %) Others 51 ( 18.75 %) Export details (help) EXCEL CSV REFINE THE QUERY Region or sub-region: All regions  - Africa  - Americas  - Asia  - Europe  - Oceania All sub-regions  - Caribbean countries  - Central Africa  - Central America  - Central Asia  - East Africa  - East Asia  - Europe  - Middle East  - North Africa  - North America  - Oceania  - South America  - South Asia  - South East Asia  - Southern Africa  - West Africa   (see definition of regions) Filter by structure of parliament: all parliamentary structures only unicameral parliaments only bicameral parliaments only lower chambers only upper chambers lower chambers and unicameral parliaments More options for exporting data from PARLINE are available in the Toolbox. See the "How to ..." section for help on exporting data.
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