Politics

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Election
A method of filling an office or post through choices made by a designated body of people: the electorate.
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Delegate
A person who is chosen to act for another on the basis of clear guidance or instructions; delegates do not think for themselves.
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Trustee
A person who has formal (and usually legal) responsibility for another's property or affairs
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Free vote
A vote in which there is no 'party line' allowing MPs to think for themselves and vote independently
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Mandate
An instruction or command that gives authority to a person or body to act in a particular way.
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Manifesto
A pamphlet that outlines (in more or less details) the policies or programme a party intends to introduce if elected to power.
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Majoritarian system
An electoral system that tends to 'over-present' larger parties and usually results in single party majority government
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Proportional system
An electoral system that tends to represent parties inline with their electoral support, often portrayed as proportional representation
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Constituency
An electoral unit that returns one or more representatives, or the body of voters who are so represented
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Wasted vote
A vote that does not affect the outcome of the election because it is cast for a 'losing' candidate or for a candidate who already has a plurity of votes
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Safe seat
A seat or constituency that rarely changes hands and is constantly won by the same party.
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Closed List
A version of the party list system where voters only vote for political parties and have no influence over which individual candidates are elected, unlike 'open' lists.
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Minority governments
A government that does not have overall majority support in the assembly or parliament; minority governments are usually formed by single parties that are unable, or unwilling, to form a coalition
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Electoral reform
A change in the rules governing elections, usually involving the replacement of one electoral system by another; in the UK the term is invariably associated with the reform of FPTP and the adoption of the PR system.
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AV plus
A mixed voting system consisting of the alternative vote (AV) and the party list, which is used as a top up; SV is a version of AV
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Hung Parliament
A parliament in which no single party has majority control of the House of Commons
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Faction
A group of like-minded politicians, usually formed around a key leader or in support of a set of preferred policies
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Left wing
Based on generally optimistic views about human nature and favour social change; left wingers tend to support liberty, equality and state intervention
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Right Wing
Political ideas that tend to be pessimistic about human nature and oppose change; right wingers typically favour order, authority and oppose state intervention
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Progressive tax
A system of taxation in which the rich pay proportionally more in tax than the poor, usually based on graduated direct taxes
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Consensus politics
An overlap of ideological positions between two or more political parties; an argument about fundamental policy goals that permits disagreement on matters of detail or emphasise.
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A person who is chosen to act for another on the basis of clear guidance or instructions; delegates do not think for themselves.

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Delegate

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A person who has formal (and usually legal) responsibility for another's property or affairs

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A vote in which there is no 'party line' allowing MPs to think for themselves and vote independently

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An instruction or command that gives authority to a person or body to act in a particular way.

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