0 using a voting system in which a person is elected because they get more votes than anyone else in the area that they want to represent --
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.
We have had the first-past-the-post system for decades but turnout has fallen significantly only during the past few years.
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.
As he said, the first-past-the-post system will clearly not produce a spread of opinion within the party affiliations.
He has also fallen victim to the first-past-the-post illusion that 43 per cent is a majority.
That would give a total of 118 members elected on a first-past-the-post basis, to which could be added 11 list members.
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.
Why do they not now see that we need to turn our attentions to our 19th century first-past-the-post system of elections?
