Panachage

Free list, vote pooling or panachage (English: , from French meaning "blend, mixture") is a method used in some systems of proportional representation where voters may freely support individual candidates across party lists, and these votes are pooled together by parties to allocate seats to party lists. From the perspective of the voters, this means multiple votes (more accurately, each voters single vote may contain multiple approvals or preferences), which they can split between individual candidates in different party lists. Seats are allocated to each party based on the number of votes for all of its candidates. Seats allocated to a party go to that party's most-popular candidates (assuming a fully open list). The system is used in legislative elections for Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mauritius and Switzerland; in national elections in Ecuador, El Salvador, and Honduras; and in local elections in a majority of German states, in Czechia, and in French communes with under 1,000 inhabitants.