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Additional Member System

Germany uses the Additional Member System (AMS) to elect its MPs. A German teenager uses the system to decide who the best penalty takers in her school are. She uses her first vote to decide the best individual penalty taker. Her second vote is used to decide the best team, which represents a party. In Germany, these second votes are used to allocate half the seats in the Parliament on a proportional basis, according to a party's share of the total votes.

A graphic then shows what the House of Commons would look like if MPs were elected using AMS (based on the results of the 2005 General Elections).

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3 minutes