You say in your presentation that “MMP is a proportional system - the party vote largely decides the total number of seats a party gets in parliament”.
I got the impression from your remarks that the party vote, on the left side of the ballot paper, determines entirely the number of seats that the party will be given. That is, if you get 15% of the votes on that list, you get 15% of the seats regardless of how you do in the electorates. Is that correct, or have I misunderstood?