Proportional Voting

Proportional Voting is where candidates running for legislative offices are ranked within their respective primaries. Voters than vote for parties rather than candidates. A party then receives the number of seats proportional to its percentage of the total vote. For example parties A, B, and C hold primaries. The candidate with the most votes in A's primary is ranked #1, the second #2 and so on all parties do this. In this example for easy math the voter turn out is 10,000 and the seats available are 10. Party A receives 5,000 or 50% that equates to 5 (50%) of the available seats, So Primary candidates #1 to #5 all get seats party B gets 40% thus candidates ranking #1 - #4 in their primary receive seats, and Party C receives only 1,000 Votes resulting in the party being awarded a single seat.