National apportionment of MP seats in the Riksdag National apportionment of MP seats in the Riksdag The electoral system in Sweden is proportional. Of the 349 seats in the national diet, the unicameral "Riksdag", 310 are fixed constituency seats () allocated to constituencies in relation to the number of people entitled to vote in each constituency (). The remaining 39 leveling seats () are used to correct the deviations from proportional national distribution that may arise when allocating the fixed constituency seats. There is a constraint in the system that means that only a party that has received at least four per cent of the votes in the
Opening of the Canadian parliament symbolic raising of other matters, designed to highlight the independence of parliament from the Crown; a practice that originated after King Charles I was tried and executed by the Parliament of England. In the Senate, it is Bill S-1, an Act Relating to Railways. Opening of the Canadian parliament The opening of the Canadian parliament is the commencement of a session of the Parliament of Canada following a general election. It involves summons from the governor general on behalf of the monarch and a ceremony based on the same in the United Kingdom, though less elaborate and now evolved to