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Meanings of first-past-the-post voting in English
Portuguese
escrutínio uninominal maioritário Catalan
escrutini majoritari uninominal Electoral system in which voters indicate the candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins.
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Examples for "fptp"
Examples for "fptp"
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FPTP is slightly different: the country is divided into multiple seats.
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It is disingenuous to suggest that such a system is somehow fairer than FPTP.
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As I pointed out in the Lords debate last week, this is mathematically impossible under FPTP.
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Arguably, the Bannside election and subsequent FPTP-type elections have emasculated moderate unionism between 1969 and today.
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In FPTP, candidates win seats by winning the highest number of votes relative to their challengers.
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Vanuatu uses a closed party-list simple majority voting system.
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Meanwhile, 58 percent of shares voted for a proposal to adopt simple majority voting in almost every circumstance.
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With the help of plurality voting, players thought to be Impostors can be removed from the game.
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Yerger's group backs plurality voting only for contested elections where there are more candidates than open seats.
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Most other companies cited by the Council have " plurality voting," so directors were not required to leave.
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Apple is one of 58 companies Calpers has urged to adopt majority rather than plurality voting, where unopposed directors can be elected easily.
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Plurality voting lowers the bar when incumbents run unopposed.
Usage of first-past-the-post voting in English
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As elsewhere, the first-past-the-post voting system in Eurovision is to be commended.
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In a 2011 referendum, Britons rejected changing their first-past-the-post voting system.
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Both parties benefited significantly from this unrepresentative, first-past-the-post voting system in the past.
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That is the result of another British legacy: first-past-the-post voting.
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That's how the maths of Britain's first-past-the-post voting system works.
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The UK's first-past-the-post voting system means the parties with the most votes may not win the most seats.
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Meanwhile, because of the UK's first-past-the-post voting system, Ukip's support would translate to a relatively modest five seats.
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Speaking after the general election won by the Conservative party, Bennett said Britain needed to scrap first-past-the-post voting and introduce a proportional system.
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Westminster's first-past-the-post voting system, a virtually nuance-free process, imposes a tactical crudeness on a political culture not normally known for its genteel side.
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The other is to frame Ukip as a "wasted vote"; a party that can do nothing under the first-past-the-post voting system.
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They are familiar with non first-past-the-post voting and can hope to benefit from the greater leverage which fragmentation at the centre would probably give them.
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The so-called first-past-the-post voting system means that a party can capture a majority in parliament by winning less than 40% of the popular vote.
Translations for first-past-the-post voting
Portuguese