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The additional member system produces a form of proportional representation, where each constituency has its own representative, and each region has seats given to political parties to reflect as closely as possible its level of support among voters.

[1] Each registered voter is asked to cast 2 votes, resulting in MSPs being elected in one of two ways: With the additional members system, there are 3 ways in which a person can stand to be a MSP:[3] A candidate may stand both in a constituency and on a regional list.

Candidates who succeed in being elected to a constituency seat will then have their name removed from the regional list process.

This situation occurred in April 2014 following the death of Margo MacDonald, independent MSP for the Lothian region.