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Proportionally equal populous districts allow voters to have an equally weighted vote in the election of representatives. If, for instance, in a uninominal system, a representative is elected from a district that has twice as many voters compared to another district, the voters in the larger district will have half the influence of voters in the smaller district. This violates the essence of the universal principle of electoral democracy that all votes must have equal weight. In a system with multi-member constituencies, twice as populous districts should have twice as more representatives