Which countries governments use the system of proportional representation?
For those who might be confused, proportional representation (or PR) is usually used a as a synonym for multi-member districts, where each legislative district elects a slate of representatives, rather than only one. Germany uses proportional representation, as do Italy, Brazil, Spain, South Africa, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, Taiwan, and many more. The Japanese use a mix of PR and single-member districts. The European Union also uses PR to elects Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), even in European countries that use single-member districts in their own national elections. Most popular in Europe, PR is not universal, among the G-7 industrialized democracies, only Germany and Italy use PR. The USA, the UK (Great Britain), France, Japan (primarily), and Canada all use single-member districts. Also note that PR systems are often found in parliamentary governments, but NOT always. Britain, Australia, and Canada are all parliamentary democracies, but they don’t have proportional repres
