Ideally you should have something like an open list (where you vote the party, but also the order of preference within said party) As an example how this is im

Ideally you should have something like an open list (where you vote the party, but also the order of preference within said party) As an example how this is implemented in NL: in elections, all individual candidates are on the ballot, organized by party (yes, the papar ballot is massive -- one of the main criticisms of this system). The candidates are ordered by preference as determined by the party itself, and in general, if a party wins 8 seats during election, that means the top 8 candidates on the ballot take their seat. The lead candidate (also the face of the party campaign) is ranked #1, and people usually vote for #1 if they only care about voting for a party, not an individual. But people can vote for a non-#1 position (called a preferential vote), and if a specific candidate receives more votes than a pre-determined threshold, they're bumped on the candidate list. This allows voters to influence the resulting body composition not just by party, but by individual member. Some stats from the last national election are on the Dutch Wikipedia page (but not included in the english translation) [0]: - 150 seats in total - 46 candidates have met the preferential vote threshold in total - 3 candidates could not take seat because their party won 0 seats - 4 candidates took seat at the expense of a (initially higher-ranked) candidate from the same party - the remaining 39 candidates would have taken seat anyway because of their original party rank [0] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samenstelling_Tweede_Kamer_2017-heden https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samenstelling_Tweede_Kamer_201...