Meanings of single-member constituency in English

After the first round, on the present FPTP, single-member constituency system, all parties would keep the seats they had won.

Finland is divided into sixteen electoral districts returning from six to twenty-three members, with the one exception of Lapland, which is a single-member constituency.

But what kind of local representation does a system of single-member constituencies provide?

First-past-the-post in single-member constituencies tends to produce a two-party system.

The German Reichstag, which consists of 397 members, is elected by a system of single-member constituencies.

The rise of the Labour Party in Australia was not prevented by a system of single-member constituencies.

The combined results of these two districts disclose the crowning weakness of a system of single-member constituencies.

In Germany and France single-member constituencies have not arrested the development of groups with national, religious, or sectional programmes.

The results of the General Election of 1874-althoughthe system of single-memberconstituencies had not then been made general-areequally instructive.

Owing to the agreement between the leaders of the Liberal and Conservative parties in favour of single-member constituencies this movement had no immediate result.

The administrative areas (with some exceptions) were then divided into single-member constituencies, but it was soon found how unsatisfactorily this system works.

On the other hand, it has been demonstrated beyond any doubt that a system of single-member constituencies has completely failed to maintain the two-party system.

This Bill, in its final form, was made applicable, in accordance with the recommendation of the Royal Commissions on Electoral Systems, to single-member constituencies only.]

"It is sometimes said," states Mr. Corbett, "that if the single-member constituencies were made equal in size these inequalities of representation would disappear.