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No, there can be a maximum of 9 PR seats. 1 PR seat per 10% of the vote. Since both the big parties ended at 49,x% they get 4 seats each = 8 in total. Had one of them past 50% they would have gotten the 9th seat. Their electoral legislation take it for granted that two parties will never share the
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I added the theoretical 50/50 situation for clarity regarding why the number is nine.--
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