The Wikipedia definitions sound identical to me; they are both ways to make a political party’s share of seats in the legislature more proportional to their share of the popular vote, by giving them additional seats, I guess. But they’re apparently different things?
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A leveling seat is one given to a party with **fewer** constituency seats than its proportional share.
An overhang seat occurs when a party wins **more** constituency seats than its proportional share.
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