| | Scottisch Parliament | German Bundestag |
| No. Of Seats |
- 129 fix
- 73 constituencies
- 56 party list
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- 598 (+overhang seats)
- 299 constituencies
- 299 party list (+overhang seats)
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| threshold | natural threshold in regions (about 5-6%) | 5% of total party votes or 3 constituencies |
| calculation method | Divisor method with rounding down (D'Hondt, Jefferson) | Quota method with greatest remainder (Hare-Niemeyer, Hamilton) |
| kind of overhang | in separated regions. | intern. |
| dealing with overhang | The overhang is taken from the other parties, to reach the given number of seats in a region. | Remain and increase size of parliament. Neither compensation for nor taken away from other parties. |
| independant candidates | Successful Seats are just taken out of number of PR-Seats | Successful Seats taken out of number of PR-Seats. Party Votes of their voters are ignored to prevent double success of votes. |
| type of regional party lists | Independant regions: Party lists independent in different regions for calculation. Using Divisor method with rounding down (D'Hondt, Hamilton) gives an advantage to bigger parties. | Regional lists of one are connected. The treshold is valid for a party. The total number of seats is calculated for the party as whole and then sub-distributed to the regional lists. |
| PR reducing elements |
- parallel usage of divisor method with rounding down,
- overhang seats
- taking away the overhang from the other parties
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- overhang seats
- threshold clause
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| strange effects | by-elections without new calculation of regional list seats (Incentive not to win a Constituency in the first place) | negative weight of votes |
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