Electoral systems
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- Created on: 15-12-17 11:32
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- Electoral systems
- First past the post
- Used for ???????? general elections and local council elections in England and Wales
- Voters cast a single vote by placing a cross next to the name of their preferred candidate.
- FPTP is a simple plurality system: the person with the largest number of votes in a constituency is elected
- The winner does not have to gain a majority of the voted cast. The party with the largest number of seats has the right to form a government
- General elections are supposed to take place every five years on the first Thursday in May
- additional member system
- AMS is a hybrid of mixed system, combining elements of FPTP and proportionality
- Used in the Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly
- Voters have two votes: the first is for a constituency representative,who is elected using FPTP, the second is for a party list and uses multi-member regional constituenciesintroducing an element of proportional representation
- Single transferable vote
- A form of proportional representation
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- First past the post
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