This week, the conservative majority in the Congress voted for the "distritão" to replace the proportional election system.
Nowadays, the Brazilian Congress is elected through na open list proportional system. According to the "distritão", each state will elect the representatives who have more votes, no matter the parties.
"Distritão" is much worse than open-list proportional, closed-list proportional, FPTP and mixed German system
So if the state has 15 seats the 15 candidates with the most personal votes are elected? No list votes?
Correct: under the Distritão, like Brazil's current "proportional" system, every state's an electoral district; there are no geographical subdivisions, so those candidates receiving the most votes statewide are elected. Each state, under the Constitution, has between 8 & 70 federal deputies. The Distritão thus resembles elections for the Senate, where each state has 3 senators, & the candidates w/ the most votes are seated.
