first-past-the-post voting
Sign in to saveAlso known as FPTP, winner-take-all voting, FPP, single-member plurality voting, SMP, choose-one voting, first-preference plurality voting, 1stP
electoral system in which voters indicate the candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins
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Vinony's link graph records 8,867 inbound references to first-past-the-post voting, and connects out to single-member district, tactical voting and Condorcet criterion.
It is catalogued under topics including Electoral systems, Incomplete lists from July 2016 and Single-winner electoral systems.
Vinony links it to 29 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- electoral system
- Subclass of
- plurality voting system
- Image
- Plurality ballot.svg
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- Commons category
- First-past-the-post voting
- different from
- plurality voting system
- used by
- U.S. state
- has effect
- safe seat
- contributing factor of
- tactical voting
- short name
- First-past-the-post
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single-member district
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tactical voting
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Condorcet criterion
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proportional representation
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gerrymandering
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election threshold
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Arrow's impossibility theorem
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instant-runoff voting
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mixed-member proportional representation
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largest remainder method
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Duverger's law
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majority rule
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Condorcet method
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plurality voting system
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mixed electoral system
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general ticket
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plurality block voting
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contingent vote
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Coombs' method
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United States
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