Overhang seats are constituency seats won in an election under the traditional mixed-member proportional (MMP) system (as it originated in Germany), when...

Look up overhang, overhanging, overhangs, or overhung in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Overhang may refer to: Debt overhang, a fiscal situation of a...

of additional compensatory seats, known as leveling seats. Germany recently modified their system to not allow overhang seats in a way that not all local...

United Future. * indicates an overhang seat Forecasted seats are calculated using the Electoral Commission's MMP seat allocation calculator, based on...

United Future. * indicates an overhang seat Forecasted seats are calculated using the Electoral Commission's MMP seat allocation calculator, based on...

candidates. Two overhang seats were added due to Te Pāti Māori winning six electorate seats when the party vote only entitled them to four seats, with an additional...

parliaments of Germany and New Zealand, compensate for overhang seats as well, by adding seats to the assembly if needed. In the most basic implementation...

of seats in the Bundestag will be increased as much as necessary to ensure that any overhang seats are compensated through apportioned leveling seats, to...

120 MPs, although the number can increase due to a small number of overhang seats, depending on the outcome of the electoral process. The total number...

the 18th Bundestag of Germany. At stake were all 598 seats to the Bundestag, plus 33 overhang seats determined thereafter. The Christian Democratic Union...

single-member electorates, including one overhang seat, and 52 from party lists (one extra due to the overhang). No party won a majority, but the Labour...

as the ratio of FPTP seats to PR seats, the existence or nonexistence of extra compensatory seats to make up for overhang seats, and electoral thresholds...

introduction of MMP elections (i.e. 120 plus any overhang seats; there has been at least one overhang seat in five of the 10 MMP elections held since 1996)...

elected at the 2011 general election. It had 121 members (120 seats plus one overhang seat), and was in place from December 2011 until September 2014, followed...

from single-member electorates, and 51 from party lists including one overhang seat. New Zealand since 1996 has used the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP)...

Mitglieder des Bundestages) is 598; however, due to the system of overhang and leveling seats the current 20th Bundestag has a total of 735 members, making...

Māori seats and 2.12% of the party vote. The latter entitled the party to only three list seats, so the fourth electorate seat caused an overhang seat. In...

rear overhang. Practicality, style, and performance are affected by the size and weight of overhangs. Along with clearance, length of overhangs affects...

and the overall seat distribution is determined using the D'Hondt method. In the case of overhang seats, the total number of seats in the Landtag is...

receives more seats than it would be entitled to according to its second vote share in that state, the excess seats become known as overhang seats; to avoid...

imbalances in the number of MPs (members of parliament) by state caused by overhang seats. New Zealand also uses MMP. DM is moderate where districts break up...

less proportional in such cases (see the article "Overhang seat", section "Dealing with overhang seats" for the alternative method that was proposed). On...

candidate of "the Margo party") her seat was left vacant until the next election. Politics portal Overhang seat "99 MP party list", NZ Herald, 24 August...

second votes. Overhang seats may add to the nominal number of 598 members: for example, in the 2009 federal election there were 24 overhang seats, giving a...

proportional seats. The minimum size of the Abgeordnetenhaus is 130 members, but if overhang seats are present, proportional leveling seats will be added...

expands in relation to the number of overhang and leveling seats. In theory, several parties can have overhang seats at the same time, though this has not...

total of 50% of the approximately (there can be more if an Overhang seat exists) 120 seats in parliament – 61. Since it is rare for a party to win a full...

resigns; his seat is vacated permanently because it is an overhang seat 224 613 25 February 2008 Johann-Henrich Krummacher dies; his seat is vacated permanently...

each recorded no net change in seats thanks to an increase in the size of the Landtag caused by a number of overhang seats won by the Greens. Overall, the...

of seats approximately proportional to their vote share. Other systems may be insufficiently compensatory, and this may result in overhang seats, where...