Advantages of FPTP
- Created by: Jag.X
- Created on: 22-01-22 14:26
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- Advantages of FPTP
- speed and simplicity
- easy to use - single cross
- result - early in morning after polling day
- example - May 2010 GE
- required only a 5 day process before a Coalition Agreement had been drawn up + signed after cross-party talks
- example: NE constituency of Houghton + Sunderland South has for the past 6 elections been 1st to declare results - under an hour
- example - May 2010 GE
- strong and stable government
- tends to promote 2 party system - voters given clear choice
- favours majority parties + gives winners' bonus
- single-party govts w/ working majorities have lots of control over leg process + can carry out mandate
- example: Thatcher in 1980s
- allowed her to carry out her plans for reduction of trade union power + privatisation
- example: Blair in 1997
- allowed him to undertake extensive constitutional reforms
- example: Thatcher in 1980s
- single-party govts w/ working majorities have lots of control over leg process + can carry out mandate
- exclusion of extremists
- under-represents smaller parties, but extreme parties less likely to gain seats
- example - BNP
- under-represents smaller parties, but extreme parties less likely to gain seats
- strong link between MPs and their constituencies
- relatively small size of each constituency + only single MP responsible for representing ppl
- correspond w/ ppl + hold surgeries where they make themselves available to ppl seeking help + advice
- example: Stephen Timmins MP
- Labour MP - represents East Ham in London
- held record for greatest no. of surgeries in 2011
- even did after he was stabbed by Islamic extremist at a surgery prev year
- example: Stephen Timmins MP
- allows for a close + productive constituency representation- visible channel of communication
- speed and simplicity
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