proportional
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She told BBC London Politics: "We've won 100% of the seats but we do still support proportional representation and we want to make sure that every vote counts."
From BBC • May 17, 2026
Courts and advocacy groups increasingly treated proportional representation as a requirement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
The due diligence World Liberty conducted was proportional with the nature of its arrangement with AB and didn’t identify any sanctioned individuals, the lawyer said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
A new proportional voting system in Wales makes it unlikely any one party will have a majority this time around, and it's hard to make accurate predictions.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026
It says that the squares of the periods of any two planets are proportional to the cubes of their distances from the Sun.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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