The Court and the previous European Commission of Human Rights found the great majority of electoral systems to be compatible with the Convention:

• Proportional representation or majority voting;


• Simple (one round) or relative (two round) majority voting;


• Two stage or indirect voting (as in the case of French senatorial elections by an electoral college made up of elected members);


• The question arises as to whether the Court might find such a system of indirect suffrage, in which voting is restricted to certain "privileged" citizens, even if they are elected members, to be compatible with the Convention, since in practice it deprives the great majority of the population of the right to vote;


• Single transferable or alternative voting, in which citizens receive two or more votes, which promotes co-operation between communities