After the first round, on the present FPTP, single-memberconstituency system, all parties would keep the seats they had won.
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Finland is divided into sixteen electoral districts returning from six to twenty-three members, with the one exception of Lapland, which is a single-memberconstituency.
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But what kind of local representation does a system of single-memberconstituencies provide?
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First-past-the-post in single-memberconstituencies tends to produce a two-party system.
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The German Reichstag, which consists of 397 members, is elected by a system of single-memberconstituencies.
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The rise of the Labour Party in Australia was not prevented by a system of single-memberconstituencies.
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The combined results of these two districts disclose the crowning weakness of a system of single-memberconstituencies.
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In Germany and France single-memberconstituencies have not arrested the development of groups with national, religious, or sectional programmes.
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The results of the General Election of 1874-althoughthe system of single-memberconstituencies had not then been made general-areequally instructive.
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Owing to the agreement between the leaders of the Liberal and Conservative parties in favour of single-memberconstituencies this movement had no immediate result.
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The administrative areas (with some exceptions) were then divided into single-memberconstituencies, but it was soon found how unsatisfactorily this system works.
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On the other hand, it has been demonstrated beyond any doubt that a system of single-memberconstituencies has completely failed to maintain the two-party system.
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This Bill, in its final form, was made applicable, in accordance with the recommendation of the Royal Commissions on Electoral Systems, to single-memberconstituencies only.]
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"It is sometimes said," states Mr. Corbett, "that if the single-memberconstituencies were made equal in size these inequalities of representation would disappear.