Voting Systems
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- Created on: 20-03-18 15:54
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- Voting Systems
- FPTP
- Electorate have one vote in their constituency and the one with the most votes wins
- Extremist parties are unlikely to be elected as they wont be able to win enough votes in any one constituency
- The result becomes clear quickly, so the winning party can take over Gov as soon as the election is over
- No. of votes does not reflect the no. of seats won, a party can win with a minority of the votes
- Smaller parties tend to win fewer seats because they tend not to have enough support in each constituency
- People may vote tactically to keep a party out rather than for a party they believe in
- Safe seats
- PR
- no. of seats is roughly proportional to no. of votes
- No votes are wasted - fair
- No. of seats the parties win reflect the % of votes
- Difficult to stand as an independent candidate
- The party can draw up a list so only people who agree with the most powerful people in a party will be elected - not democratic
- Small parties can have unfair power over the larger parties by threatening to pull out of a coalition
- There would be less power for constituencies
- EU Parliament
- every five years elect 73 MEPs to represent the UK
- elected using the closed list system (form of PR), put forward a list of people in the order they will be elected
- FPTP
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