Both List PR and MMP require partisan elections, whereas CV is amenable to both partisan and non-partisan elections. In List PR, political parties prepare ordered lists of candidates and publish them before the election. Voters vote for the party of their choice, and seats are allocated to the parties based on the percentage of vote they receive.
Parties then fill the seats with the candidates on their lists, in order.
List PR is used by most of Western Europe, most of South America, and post-apartheid South Africa, among other countries. Mixed Member Proportional combines List PR with single-member districts. After the winners of the single-member districts are determined, the party list seats are allocated in a compensatory fashion so that the total percentage of seats each party receives corresponds to the percentage of the party list vote received. MMP is used by Germany, Hungary, Mexico, Venezuela, and New Zealand, among other countries. A threshold of election is established by dividing the number of ballots cast by one more than the number of seats to be filled, and then adding one.