More difficult is the demand by the Liberal Democrats that the 60-seat assembly should be enlarged to allow for more seats elected by proportional representation (at present a third of the seats will be elected in this way).
The Irish parliament, or Dail, is elected by proportional representation, using the single transferable vote system.
The Constituent Assembly itself, elected by proportional representation, gave previously excluded social groups a role in national issues.
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And both the Scottish and Welsh legislatures will be elected by proportional representation.
For bodies elected by proportional representation (including regional and municipal councils and the European Parliament), this should not be difficult.
It will differ from Westminster in two big respects: it will be elected by proportional representation and it will have a single chamber.
But the Scottish parliament will be elected by proportional representation, and in Scotland's four-party politics not even the Labour Party has enough support to win outright control.
The problem is that because the Parliament is elected by proportional representation, a party needs to get close to 50% of the vote before it can hope to have a majority.
The most striking outcome of the congressional election in July was the relative failure of the Islamists, whose main party, Justice and Construction, allied to the Muslim Brotherhood, got only 17 out of the 80 seats elected by proportional representation on party lists, whereas a coalition of secularists, liberals and milder Islamists won 39.
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The voting system is highly complex, with two-thirds of the 498 elected seats being decided by proportional representation and the rest by a first-past-the-post system.
As Mr Clegg took questions in the Commons on 10 July 2012, he argued that a referendum on the government's plans to make the upper house a mostly elected chamber, selected by proportional representation on 15-year, non-renewable terms, would be unnecessary and expensive.
Much of Labour's support, however, stems from disenchantment with the first government to be elected under the now unpopular proportional-representation system.
Councillors in Scotland are usually elected to multi-member wards under proportional representation using the "single transferable vote" method.
Although the commission suggests that a fraction (it is divided on how small) should be regional members, elected or selected by some form of proportional representation, most are to be appointees, selected for their greatness and goodness by a committee of the great and good.
The results meant the assembly has 30 out of 60 women members - the first nationally-elected body in the world with at least 50% female representation.
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