The Kiwi Electoral System

Of course, it will never fly here. N.Z. is so bloody liberal for a reason.
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* The Party Vote is for the political party the elector most wants to be represented in Parliament. The Party Vote portion of the single-page ballot paper shows all the registered political parties that have nominated a party list for the general election. Every voter chooses among the same parties on the Party Vote regardless of whether he or she is enrolled for a General electorate or for as Maori electorate.
* The Electorate Vote is for the candidate the elector wants to represent him or her as the electorate MP.

In general, each registered party's total number of Party Votes decides its share of all 120 seats in Parliament. However, before it is entitled to a share of all the seats, a party must first qualify by "crossing the threshold": either it must win at least five percent of all the Party Votes cast at the election, or it must win at least one General or Maori electorate seat. Party Votes cast for parties that do not cross the threshold are disregarded.

The Sainte-Laguë mathematical formula is used to allocate seats to parties that cross the threshold. If an electorate seat is won by an Independent candidate or by a party that did not appear on the Party Vote the Chief Electoral Officer subtracts that number of seats from 120 and uses the lower number to work out allocations of seats between parties that cross the threshold.

Each party that qualifies will be allocated enough list seats to add to any electorate seats it has won so that its share of the total 120 seats is close to its share of all the Party Votes cast for parties that cross the threshold.

If a party that appears on the Party Vote wins more electorate seats than it is entitled to based on its share of all the Party Votes then it does not receive any list seats. It keeps the extra seats (known as "overhang" seats) and the size of Parliament increases by that number of seats until the next general election.

Parties which get list seats fill those seats from the list of candidates they nominated before the general election. List candidates become list MPs in the order they are shown on their party's list, and voters cannot change that order. A person can be a "dual candidate" by standing for an electorate seat as well as being on the party list. A dual candidate who wins an electorate seat has his or her name deleted from the party list.