Editing Additional-member system (section)

=== Variations of AMS ===
[[File:Scottish Parliament election map 2021.svg|thumb|right|300px|The Scottish elections are divided into two tiers.]]The [[Arbuthnott Commission]] recommended that Scotland change to a model where the voter can vote for a specific regional candidate as well (called an ''[[open list]]''), but this has not been implemented. A similar system is used in [[Bavaria]], where the second vote is not simply for the party but for one of the candidates on the party's regional list and both votes count for party and candidates so that every vote counts twice (Bavaria uses seven regions for this purpose). In [[Baden-Württemberg]] there are no lists; they use the "best near-winner" method ([[Zweitmandat]]) in a four-region model, where the regional members are the local candidates of the under-represented party in that region who received the most votes in their local constituency without being elected in it, but this model has not been copied in the United Kingdom. 

To produce more proportional results without increasing the number of seats in the chamber, reforms might include changing the way district members are elected. If STV or [[Single non-transferable vote|SNTV]] is used, the district elections are likely to be more proportional than if districts seats are filled through [[First-past-the-post voting|first-preference plurality]] (FPP), and thus the available top-up seats could be used to produce more proportional overall chamber composition.