Electoral list

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An electoral list is a grouping of candidates in an election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can constitute a group of independent candidates (an electoral citizens' list or civic list). Lists can be open, in which case electors have some influence over the ranking of the winning candidates on the list, or closed, in which case the order of candidates is fixed at the registration of the list. Pure open list (including free list variants) systems are essentially mechanisms pooling vote for individual candidates of parties. Electoral lists are required for party-list proportional representation systems, but not all proportional representation systems use lists and not all systems using lists provide proportional representation. An electoral list is made according to the applying nomination rules and election rules. Depending on the type of election...

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