what type of election system does the US have- like propotional representation?

Answer 1

On the national level, the U.S. is a representative democracy where a plurality of votes (in most states) is enough to win an election.

Answer 2

Okay. The "US" is short for the United States of America, which basically means the federal government, not the state governments.

In the federal government, the legislative body is Congress and it has two chambers -- the House of Representatives and the Senate.

In the Senate, each state, no matter what its population, has equall representation. Two Senators for each state. Wyoming, the smallest state, has two and California, the largest, has two. Despite the fact that California has about 60 times as much population.

In the House, each state has proportional representation. Let's say, for simplicity's sake, that the 2000 census reported that the population of the entire nation was 261,000,000. That would mean that the average population for each of the 435 districts in the country would be 600,000. And if Illinois had a population of 12,000,000 and Indiana had a population of 6,000,000 and Iowa had a population of 3,000,000 then Illinois would have 20 seats in the House and Indiana would have 10 and Iowa would have 5.

So we have a split system in Congress -- proportional representation in the House and non-proportional in the Senate.

Answer 3

for presidential elections, there's the electoral college...where the number of representatives + the number of senators per state is the number of points a candidate gets for winning the majority of the votes in that state. that's why it's possible for some candidates to receive the majority of popular votes, but still win based on the number of electoral votes he receives.