For regional council elections, where women have fared very poorly, afirst-past-the-postor winner-take-all method is used.
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Many scholars continued implicitly to accept the contention that accommodation is the optimal strategy for out-parties in a two-party,first-past-the-postsystem.
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The former is used in afirst-past-the-postcontest to elect a constituency representative; the latter is a party list ballot.
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Regional council elections are held every six years under afirst-past-the-postelectoral system.
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The fear was thatfirst-past-the-postelections would underrepresent minorities in each parliament.
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That is one of the strange ways in which thefirst-past-the-postsystem has worked.
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In that situation, thefirst-past-the-postsystem did not have any effect.
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Why do they not now see that we need to turn our attentions to our 19th centuryfirst-past-the-postsystem of elections?
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I speak as someone who received 74 more votes than my nearest competitor, which gives me a direct interest infirst-past-the-postelections.
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That would give a total of 118 members elected on afirst-past-the-postbasis, to which could be added 11 list members.
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He has also fallen victim to thefirst-past-the-postillusion that 43 per cent is a majority.
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As he said, thefirst-past-the-postsystem will clearly not produce a spread of opinion within the party affiliations.
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We believe that any genuine proportional system is better than thefirst-past-the-postsystem but that some proportional systems are better than others.
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We have had thefirst-past-the-postsystem for decades but turnout has fallen significantly only during the past few years.
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It is obvious that next year we shall be having an election in this country on the basis of thefirst-past-the-postsystem.
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