First Past the Post electoral system: Difference between revisions

{{Wikipedia|First-past-the-post voting}}A '''first-past-the-post''' ('''FPTP'''; sometimes '''FPP''')<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Resource-material-STV-Information-More-about-FPP?OpenDocument|title=More about FPP|author=The Department of Internal Affairs, Government of New Zealand|website=dia.govt.nz|language=en-NZ|access-date=2019-02-17}}</ref> [./https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system [electoral system]] is one in which voters indicate on a ballot the candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins. This is sometimes described as ''winner takes all''. First-past-the-post voting is a [./https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality_voting [plurality voting]] method. FPTP is a common, but not universal, feature of electoral systems with [./https[w://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-member_districtmember district|single-member electoral divisions]], and is practised in close to one third of countries. Notable examples include the [./https[w://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States United States]], the [./https[w://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom United Kingdom]], as well as some of the latter's former [./https[w://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony colony|colonies]] and [./https[w://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectorate protectoratesprotectorate]]s, such as [./https[w://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada Canada]] or [./https[w://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India]].