ELECTORAL SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electoral system mean? 

• ELECTORAL SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun ELECTORAL SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. a legal system for making democratic choices

  Familiarity information: ELECTORAL SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTORAL SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A legal system for making democratic choices

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

electoral system; voting system

Hypernyms ("electoral system" is a kind of...):

legal system (a system for interpreting and enforcing the laws)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electoral system"):

scrutin uninomial system; scrutin uninominal voting system; single-member system; uninominal system; uninominal voting system (based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district)

list system; scrutin de liste; scrutin de liste system (based on the principle of proportional representation; voters choose between party lists, the number elected from each list being determined by the percentage cast for each list out of the total vote)