{"id":24137,"date":"2024-06-10T02:47:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T21:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24137"},"modified":"2025-10-04T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:20:22","slug":"proportional-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/proportional-representation\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Proportional Representation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Proportional Representation:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Proportional Representation (PR) system<strong> ensures representation of all parties based on their vote share<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The most commonly used PR system is the <strong>\u2018party list PR\u2019<\/strong> where voters vote for the party (and not individual candidates) and then the parties get seats in proportion to their vote share.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>First Past the Post System:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India currently uses the First Past the Post (FPTP) system, where the <strong>candidate with the most votes in a constituency wins.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The FPTP system is simple and <strong>provides stability to the executive<\/strong>, but it <strong>can lead to unrepresentative governments.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mixed Member Proportional Representation (MMPR):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To balance stability and proportionate representation, the Mixed Member Proportional Representation (MMPR) system can be considered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Under MMPR, there is one candidate elected through FPTP from each territorial constituency, and additional seats are allocated to parties proportionally based on their vote share.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1. What is the strength of the Rajya Sabha?<\/h3>\n<p>The Rajya Sabha should consist of not more than 250 members &#8211; 238 members representing the States and Union Territories, and 12 members nominated by the President. The Rajya Sabha currently has 245 members, including 233 elected members and 12 nominated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/is-it-time-for-proportional-representation-explained\/article68269434.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Is it time for proportional representation? | Explained<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Proportional Representation (PR) system ensures representation of all parties based on their vote share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}