proportional
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It includes 73 constituencies, elected first-past-the-post like seats at Westminster, as well as 56 more which use a form of proportional representation to balance things out.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
Courts and advocacy groups increasingly treated proportional representation as a requirement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
But rising oil prices this time around may not be able to directly translate into proportional gains in revenue or earnings for oil producers, according to market analysts.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026
The Holyrood voting system is a mix of first-past-the-post and proportional representation - making it harder for a party to secure a majority than in a Westminster election, for instance.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
So it predicted that the red shift of a galaxy should be directly proportional to its distance from us, exactly as Hubble found.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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