The proportional representatives have been elected through a direct voting since the 17th General Election with the introduction of the double ballot system, and the systematic reform of distributing the proportional seats at the National Assembly bas...
The proportional representatives have been elected through a direct voting since the 17th General Election with the introduction of the double ballot system, and the systematic reform of distributing the proportional seats at the National Assembly based on the vote acquisition rate of political parties rather than the vote acquisition rate by each region as done in the past has also been achieved. However, provision of the reform measure for a more fundamental system has been raised as the key pending issue since improvement of a regional vote convergence caused by regionalism even under the changed election system is beginning to show the limit.
The Germany's PR system that harmonized representativeness and proportionality has been evaluated positively as an alternative model of the present election system. However, the issue concerning the 'loss of directly-elected seats' and 'system immanent' contradictions, such as the 'negative Stimmgewicht', have been discovered, and the effects of overcoming the regionalism have also been analyzed as being little compared with the 'uniform allocation PR'. Although a criticism of a uniform allocation PR being intentional from the perspective of the proportional seat allocation method and violating the principle of a direct voting has been raised, its systematic purpose bears the priority value for preventing a regional monopoly by a specific political party through enhancing regional representation of political parties; thus, it seems to be appropriate as a reform plan. In addition, in order to add the systematic effects of such uniform allocation PR, it should be linked with the 'city-rural combined electoral district system'.