Royal Commission On The Electoral System - Recommendations

Recommendations

1. The Commission unanimously recommended the adoption of mixed member proportional, with a threshold of 4% and that a referendum be held before or at the 1987 election.
2. They also recommended that the Māori seats be abolished, with Māori parties instead receiving representation if they did not pass the threshold.
3. That the number of MPs raise to 120 (although they considered 140 would be ideal, they realised that it would receive too much public backlash).
4. The term of Parliament be raised to four years.
5. The Commission recommended that citizens initiated referendums not be implemented. However, they were in 1993.