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- noun Attributive form of
first past the post
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Examples
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Indeed, one party activist got a little carried away when he said: "If this had been first-past-the-post we'd have won 130 seats."
Alex Salmond can do no wrong after biggest victory margin in Scottish political history 2011
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The Scottish electoral system relies on an intricate formula combining first-past-the-post and alternative voting to ensure that results like this should never happen.
Alex Salmond can do no wrong after biggest victory margin in Scottish political history 2011
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Meanwhile, first-past-the-post continues to work extremely well in Canada.
Matthew Yglesias » Extremism and Proportional Representation 2009
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Tony WintersStourbridge, Staffordshire• In the aftermath of last Thursday's election results Comment, 7 May, given that first-past-the-post determines the winner and Nick Clegg remains nominal Lib Dem leader, the only question worth asking is which of the pair, Clegg or Cameron, will win the race to break their yoke?
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Meanwhile, first-past-the-post continues to work extremely well in Canada.
Matthew Yglesias » Extremism and Proportional Representation 2009
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Israel ought to scrap PR in favour of first-past-the-post.
Matthew Yglesias » Extremism and Proportional Representation 2009
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Plenty of other parliamentary democracies have stable governments – the key is how the representatives are elected: single member or multi-member; first-past-the-post or proportional representation and if the latter, then how is it implemented – a list system with a high thresshold?
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Your report Voting system will keep us in perpetual coalition, 4 January on electoral reform confirms that the first-past-the-post system is broken.
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Israel ought to scrap PR in favour of first-past-the-post.
Matthew Yglesias » Extremism and Proportional Representation 2009
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Coupled with Labour's catastrophe in Scotland and the triumph of first-past-the-post, it is hard not to see David Cameron as the winner of Thursday's elections.
Lib Dem collapse in local elections is good news for David Cameron 2011
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