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Scrutin de liste   Listen
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Scrutin de liste  n.  Voting for a group of candidates for the same kind of office on one ticket or ballot, containing a list of them; the method, used in France, as from June, 1885, to Feb., 1889, in elections for the Chamber of Deputies, each elector voting for the candidates for the whole department in which he lived, as disting. from scrutin d'arrondissement, or voting by each elector for the candidate or candidates for his own arrondissement only.






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... which we have read so often in Associated Press telegrams,—the dispute concerning the scrutin de liste and the scrutin d'arrondissement. "Scrutin" means ballot; "scrutin de liste" means that electors might choose any Frenchman as their candidate; "scrutin d'arrondissement," that they must confine their choice to some man living in the district for which he wished to stand. The Left disapproved the scrutin d'arrondissement, which gave too ...
— France in the Nineteenth Century • Elizabeth Latimer



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