The proportional representation system was widely blamed for two inconclusive election results and a year of political stalemate.

两次无结果的选举和一年的政治僵局使得比例代表制受到广泛地指责。

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This is not the proportional representation of Lib Dem dreams.

这不是自民党期待的比例代表制。

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The legislature currently has 299 seats, of which 243 are elected by regional vote and the remaining is distributed by the proportional representation ballot.

立法机构当前有299个席位，其中的243由地方投票选出，其余的席位是按照比例进行投票选出的。

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This change in itself falls far short of the proportional representation that Lib Dems would like.

ECONOMIST: British politics

The new party's initial successes were all in the proportional representation elections for the European Parliament - winning its first three seats in 1999 with 7% of the vote.

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By early morning, after all the votes had been counted and 46 parliamentary seats allocated under the proportional-representation system, the GNP had emerged with 133 seats, just four short of a majority.

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