first-past-the-post

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Voorbeelden van first-past-the-post

  • For regional council elections, where women have fared very poorly, a first-past-the-post or winner-take-all method is used.

  • Many scholars continued implicitly to accept the contention that accommodation is the optimal strategy for out-parties in a two-party, first-past-the-post system.

  • The former is used in a first-past-the-post contest to elect a constituency representative; the latter is a party list ballot.

  • Regional council elections are held every six years under a first-past-the-post electoral system.

  • The fear was that first-past-the-post elections would underrepresent minorities in each parliament.

  • That is one of the strange ways in which the first-past-the-post system has worked.

  • In that situation, the first-past-the-post system did not have any effect.

  • Why do they not now see that we need to turn our attentions to our 19th century first-past-the-post system of elections?

  • I speak as someone who received 74 more votes than my nearest competitor, which gives me a direct interest in first-past-the-post elections.

  • That would give a total of 118 members elected on a first-past-the-post basis, to which could be added 11 list members.

  • He has also fallen victim to the first-past-the-post illusion that 43 per cent is a majority.

  • As he said, the first-past-the-post system will clearly not produce a spread of opinion within the party affiliations.

  • We believe that any genuine proportional system is better than the first-past-the-post system but that some proportional systems are better than others.

  • We have had the first-past-the-post system for decades but turnout has fallen significantly only during the past few years.

  • It is obvious that next year we shall be having an election in this country on the basis of the first-past-the-post system.

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