Meaning Balance seats
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Balance seatsThe seats used to ‘balance’ the number of members in the legislature when an overhang occurs (see below). In some countries, balance seats are used to maintain the proportionality between parties established by an election result. This increases the size of the legislature as the party with the overhang seats keeps the additional seats and other pa [..]
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