first-past-the-post
description: electoral system in which voters indicate the candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins
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Programming in Haskell
by Graham Hutton · 31 Aug 2016
", "Blue", "Green"] The functions count and rmdups can then be combined using a list comprehension to define a function that returns the result of a first-past-the-post election in increasing order of the number of votes received: result :: Ord a => [a] -> [(Int,a)] result vs = sort [(count v vs, v) | v <- rmdups
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by Stay European · 3 Oct 2021 · 940pp · 16,301 words
next time. If the leaderships won’t construct a progressive alliance, we can build one from the grassroots. Proportional representation In our current electoral system, first-past-the-post, the Tories are wildly overrepresented – they have a large parliamentary 68 majority on a 44% minority of the overall vote. That is why many pro
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by Manuel Arriaga · 1 Jan 2014 · 124pp · 30,520 words
do the smaller parties’ chances of securing any representation at all. This “trick” makes so-called “proportional representation” systems produce results that resemble those of first-past-the-post elections—thus cementing the power of the large, entrenched parties at the expense of non-establishment voices. Campaigning like the French Another issue central to
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with the largest number of votes in that district. This is called the plurality voting system (‘plurality’ meaning ‘largest number of votes’) – often called the ‘first-past-the-post’ system, because there is no prize for any runner-up, and no second round of voting (both of which feature in other electoral systems for
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by George Monbiot · 14 Apr 2016 · 334pp · 82,041 words
. Its lack of a codified constitution permits numberless abuses of power. It has failed to reform the House of Lords, royal prerogative, campaign finance and first-past-the-post voting (another triumph for the no brigade).14 It is dominated by a media owned by tax exiles, who, instructing their editors from their distant
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by Paul Collier · 30 Sep 2013 · 303pp · 83,564 words
who were increasingly alarmed by the silence of the mainstream parties. To date, the only thing that has kept extremist parties at bay has been first-past-the-post voting systems. In the United States and Britain, where such voting systems make it hard for third parties to survive, extremist parties have not gained
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by Nessa Carey · 7 Mar 2019 · 182pp · 45,873 words
. This might all seem straightforward, with Doudna and Charpentier being the first to publish and the first to file patent applications. Patenting is basically a first-past-the-post system, where the winner takes it all. If only it were that simple and clean. The Broad Institute paid to have its application fast-tracked
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of Conservative rule, they voted Labour and Tony Blair into office with a huge parliamentary majority, achieved by virtue of an antiquated and blatantly unrepresentative first-past-the-post system: 13.5 million, against 9.6 million for the Conservatives and 5.2 million for the Liberal Democrats. Blair had fought a slick campaign
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