What is the Additional Member System, or AMS?
This is the new element to the electoral system, being used for the first time in the UK in the elections to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly. As well as their FPTP vote, electors cast a second ballot for a party. These votes are added up and then adjusted under a method called the d’Hondt system. This allocates seats to parties according to the general level of support, but penalises parties which have already won lots of seats. The overall effect is that parties which win lots of constituency seats under FPTP will not get many Additional Members. Conversely, parties which receive lots of votes but do not win many constituency seats are likely to do well in getting Additional Members.
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