First Past the Post electoral system: Difference between revisions
Removed "winner-take-all" because that describes *all* single-member methods. Moved plurality voting to the top of the list because it is used more often than the others.
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First-past-the-post is often referred to with the following terms:
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* '''most votes wins'''
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* '''choose-one voting'''
* '''single-member plurality (SMP)'''
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== Background ==
{{see also|choose-one ballot}}
[[File:Muybridge_race_horse_animated.gif|thumb|The term "first past the post" comes from horse racing. The winner of a horse race is the horse whose nose (or other body part) crosses in front of the post before all of the other horse noses.]]
FPTP is generally done with a [[choose-one ballot]]. Note that the FPTP-relevant information can also be captured with a [[ranked ballot]] (by only looking at a voter's 1st choice candidate; if the voter has several first choices, it is recommended to split their vote equally between each of those candidates, similar to [[cumulative voting]]), or with a [[rated ballot]] (by identifying the candidates given the highest rating on the ballot as the voter's 1st choice(s)). By extension, [[runoff voting]] and other [[:Category:FPTP-based voting methods]] can also be done using more expressive ballot types.
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Many voting reform advocates would prefer to replace FPTP with a [[Proportional representation]] voting method.
Note that [[Asset voting]] can be thought of as a way to modify FPTP to better reflect voters' wishes, because it allows voters who are unrepresented by the FPTP winner to form majority coalitions for their preferred candidate among the losers. In effect, instead of voters being forced to group behind only two candidates whatsoever, Asset allows voters to do this, and then if they dislike the winner of the top two, they can recombine behind other candidates in new [[Head-to-head matchup]]<nowiki/>s.
==References==
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[[Category:Single-mark ballot voting methods]]
[[Category:FPTP-based voting methods]]
[[Category:Monotonic electoral systems]]
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