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Denmark and Romania have systems with certain similarities. Candidates are nominated in single-member constituencies (nomination districts) but the ones with the highest number of votes are not necessarily elected. The total number of seats in parliament is distributed to parties according to their proportional share of the national results. After that, the seats won by each party are distributed to multi-member constituencies, and in the end filled by candidates running in single-member constituencies according to their number of votes. One difference between the two systems is that in Romania a candidate winning more than 50 percent of the votes in a single-member constituency is elected even if a party is not entitled to seats in the concerned constituency. That is not the case in Denmark where the parties have several options on how to nominate candidates, including forming party lists based upon their candidates in the nomination districts. In such cases, there is a threshold when the votes will over-ride the party sequence of the list.