Editing Open list (section)

===Most open list===
[[File:Finnish parliamentary election uses the open list method.JPG|thumb|right|Finnish parliamentary election uses the open list method. Here an official poster rack in central Helsinki displays the candidates and their assigned ballot numbers by party.]]
[[File:Valsedel Finland riksdagsval 2011.jpg|thumb|Ballot during the [[2011 Finnish parliamentary election|Finnish parliamentary election of 2011]]]]
[[File:Tamuratomoko-uenoparkexit-e-july2-2016.jpg|thumb|right|A campaign bus in [[Tokyo]] for (successful) [[Japanese Communist Party|Communist]] proportional candidate [[Tomoko Tamura]] in Japan's [[2016 Japanese House of Councillors election|2016 Councillors election]]. Tamura received roughly half of her votes in Tokyo, other proportional candidates on the same list won most of their votes in other prefectures.<ref>Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications: [http://www.soumu.go.jp/senkyo/senkyo_s/data/sangiin24/index.html Results of the 24th regular election of members of the House of Councillors] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410170451/http://www.soumu.go.jp/senkyo/senkyo_s/data/sangiin24/index.html |date=2019-04-10 }}: [http://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000430619.xls Proportional election, Japanese Communist Party results (lists preference votes by candidate and prefecture)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831221206/http://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000430619.xls |date=2017-08-31 }} {{in lang|ja}}</ref> The proportional district is nationwide; but limited by a very short legal campaign period, some proportional candidates focus their campaign efforts on only certain regions where they personally or their party have a local base.]]

The ''most-open list'', ''fully-open list,'' or simply ''open list'' system is one where the number of votes for each candidate fully determines the order of election. This system is used in all [[Elections in Finland|Finnish]], [[Elections in Latvia|Latvian]], and [[Elections in Brazil|Brazilian]] multiple-seat elections. Since 2001, lists of this "most open" type have also been used in the elections to fill the 96 proportional seats in the 242-member [[House of Councillors (Japan)|upper house of Japan]].{{cn|date=July 2024}}