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Meanings of simple majority voting in English

Russian
система относительного большинства
Portuguese
escrutínio uninominal maioritário
Spanish
escrutinio mayoritario uninominal
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"
        1
        FPTP is slightly different: the country is divided into multiple seats.
        The South African
        2
        It is disingenuous to suggest that such a system is somehow fairer than FPTP.
        The Guardian
        3
        As I pointed out in the Lords debate last week, this is mathematically impossible under FPTP.
        The Guardian
        4
        Arguably, the Bannside election and subsequent FPTP-type elections have emasculated moderate unionism between 1969 and today.
        The Irish Times
        5
        In FPTP, candidates win seats by winning the highest number of votes relative to their challengers.
        The South African
        1
        As elsewhere, the first-past-the-post voting system in Eurovision is to be commended.
        The Guardian
        2
        In a 2011 referendum, Britons rejected changing their first-past-the-post voting system.
        Reuters
        3
        Both parties benefited significantly from this unrepresentative, first-past-the-post voting system in the past.
        The Irish Times
        4
        That is the result of another British legacy: first-past-the-post voting.
        Reuters
        5
        That's how the maths of Britain's first-past-the-post voting system works.
        Reuters
        1
        With the help of plurality voting, players thought to be Impostors can be removed from the game.
        The South African
        2
        Yerger's group backs plurality voting only for contested elections where there are more candidates than open seats.
        Reuters
        3
        Most other companies cited by the Council have " plurality voting," so directors were not required to leave.
        Reuters
        4
        Apple is one of 58 companies Calpers has urged to adopt majority rather than plurality voting, where unopposed directors can be elected easily.
        Reuters
        5
        Plurality voting lowers the bar when incumbents run unopposed.
        Reuters
        Usage of simple majority voting in English
        1
        Vanuatu uses a closed party-list simple majority voting system.
        Radio NZ
        2
        Meanwhile, 58 percent of shares voted for a proposal to adopt simple majority voting in almost every circumstance.
        Reuters