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Additionally, since in order to win an election the winner need only have more votes then their opponent (and as FPTP elections are winner take all, they cannot win extra seats for beating their opponent by a large margin) the number of votes cast for the winning candidate above the threshold of votes needed to surpass the candidate with the 2nd most votes are also considered wasted.
Finally, in an uncontested election where there is only one candidate, that threshold becomes 1 (thus all but a single vote are wasted) since as long as at-least one person votes for the single candidate, it does not matter how many additional votes they receive in order to win the election.
== 1st generalization: Calculating the number of wasted votes under deterministic non-delegated voting methods that pass the participation criterion ==
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