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 | | At the first count, candidate D obtained the threshold of 251 votes, was declared elected and had his or her 19 surplus votes redistributed. | | | Under the first, voters have a choice among candidates, but they must be from one party alone. | | | Those candidates who obtain the threshold during the first stage of counting are declared elected and any votes they have received in excess of the threshold are redistributed according to the second choices as marked. |
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http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/bp334-e.htm
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| | Scoop: First past the post could cause mayoral shambles |
| | First past the post could cause mayoral shambles all over NZ Green Party co-leader and electoral reform advocate Rod Donald is predicting that minority mayors could be elected to over 30 councils around New Zealand because of the first past the post electoral system. | | | "I want mayoral and council candidates to declare whether they support replacing first past the post with preferential voting for mayors and STV for councillors at the 2004 elections to help voters decide who they should vote for this year," he said. | | | First past the post could cause mayoral shambles |
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0109/S00005.htm
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| | triple j's guide to election 2001 |
| | First Past the Post is commonly used for the election of Heads of State where only one candidate is to be elected. | | | In this system the elector has as many votes as there are candidates to be elected. | | | This system allows voters to vote for as many candidates as they approve of. |
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http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/22223/20011105/www.abc.net.au/triplej/elections/survival/numbercrunching_post.htm
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| | farrell3.htm |
| | The limited vote-- first proposed in parliamentary debates in the early 1830s-- was designed for multi member constituencies, where the voter was given one less vote than the number of seats to be filled. | | | Indeed, for some time, this distortive tendency in FPTP was said to have law- like status, referred to as the 'cube law' on how votes are translated into seats. | | | Just short of 85 per cent of voters rejected the FPTP system and two- thirds of voters (65 per cent) were in favour of the two-vote system (Harris, 1992). |
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http://janda.org/c24/Readings/Farrell/Farrell2.htm
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| | First Past the Post - Disadvantages |
| | Thus it is rare, for example, for a black candidate to be given a major party's nomination in a majority white district in Britain or the USA. | | | In the 1989 Botswana general election the Botswana National Front won twenty-seven percent of the votes, but only nine percent of the seats. | | | Unless seats are highly competitive, the system can be insensitive to swings in public opinion. |
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http://www.aceproject.org/main/english/es/esd01b.htm
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| | BBC NEWS VOTE2001 VOTING SYSTEM First past the post |
| | The electoral system used for UK general elections is commonly known as first past the post. | | | This involves most of the representatives being elected via first past the post with a "top-up" vote rewarding parties that win many votes but fail to win seats. | | | Simplicity Voters have a simple task - mark a cross in a single box. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/vote2001/hi/english/voting_system/newsid_1173000/1173697.stm
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| | Scoop: First-Past-The-Post decision not challenged |
| | The council in July this year resolved to hold its next triennial general election under the FPP electoral system and a public notice was published in September advising residents and ratepayers of the resolution and their right to demand a poll to revoke the decision. | | | Auckland City Council’s decision to use the First-Past-The-Post (FPP) electoral system for the 2004 triennial general election has not been challenged. | | | The council was also concerned that introducing NZSTV could have an adverse impact on voter participation.” |
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0212/S00076.htm
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| | FEATURES - FIRST PAST THE POST |
| | Security of voting was a factor in the commission's concern about the government's decision to have four regions vote by post. | | | In a letter to constitutional affairs minister Chris Leslie, commission chair Sam Younger referred to his concerns that tougher measures to prevent impropriety were needed before postal voting should be extended. | | | Come election night, council staff will verify the number of votes and separate them for the local and European election counts. |
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http://www.lgcnet.com/pages/news/article.asp?ArticleID=320587
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| | B.C. takes step toward making first-past-post elections obsolete @ workopolis.com |
| | If the recommendation is approved by voters in the provincial election next year, the switch will be the first major change in years to the traditional first-past-the post electoral system. | | | British Columbia's one-of-a-kind citizens assembly has voted to join those far-flung islands and elect future politicians with a radical, rarely used system called Single Transferable Vote. | | | The proposed system is designed to break the stranglehold of political parties, give voters more choice, make it easier for independent candidates to be elected and increase the likelihood of minority governments. |
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http://vancouverplus.workopolis.com/servlet/Content/qprinter/20041025/BC25
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| | FPTP |
| | The 1832, 1867 and 1884 Reform Acts changed a lot of the more absurd abuses that surrounded the electoral system so vividly described by Charles Dickens in "Pickwick Papers". | | | FPTP has discriminated against the Parliamentary power of the Liberal Democrats at national elections. | | | FPTP has created within Great Britain a political system that is essentially stable as politics is dominated by just two parties. |
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http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/first_past_the_post.htm
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| | First Past the Post - Advantages |
| | This state of affairs is praised for providing cabinets unshackled from the restraints of having to bargain with a minority coalition partner. | | | The "seat bonuses" for the largest party common under FPTP (i.e., where one party wins, for example, 45 percent of the national vote but 55 percent of the seats) means that coalition governments are the exception rather than the rule. | | | Many proponents of FPTP argue that true representative accountability depends upon the voters of one area knowing who their own representative is, and having the ability to re-elect, or throw them out, at election time. |
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http://www.aceproject.org/main/english/es/esd01a.htm
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| | First Past the Post (FPTP) |
| | Partial elections were held to fill the vacated seats. | | | In theory, a candidate could be elected with two votes, if every other candidate only secured a single vote. | | | Administration and Cost of Elections Project Français |
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http://www.aceproject.org/main/english/es/esd01.htm
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| | "Proportional" representation vs. first past the post |
| | Natapoff worked to convince Congress to not mess with the first past the post system used in US presidential elections. | | | It came to the initially unintuitive conclusion that first past the post is the most democratic electoral system out there, as measured by the power of a single vote to swing the outcome of an election. | | | In first past the post, the candidate that receives more votes than any of the other candidates in that district wins the seat, even if say 80% of the votes went to other candidates. |
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http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/~mspacek/vote.html
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| | Illinois Campaign for Political Reform: First Past the Post - Updated! |
| | With a flourish of his pen, Gov. Rod Blagojevich made HB 806, the ALLKIDS insurance plan, the first runner in our “Tortoise and Hare 2005” to become law. | | | Illinois Campaign for Political Reform: First Past the Post - Updated! | | | ALLKIDS (Henceforth PA 94-693) was filed on a Tuesday, passed the Senate on Wednesday and the House on Thursday. |
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http://www.ilcampaign.org/blog/2005/11/first-past-post-updated.html
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| | Voting system: First Past the Post, PR, other? |
| | All the voter has to do is to appoint one person he wants to represent him. | | | You vote for a candidate and your vote is essentially worthless because it has virtually no effect. | | | Thus every individual is fully represented in Parliament at all times, by a person contractually and legally bound to vote according to the specific promises and commitments made to secure his proxy. |
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http://www.ukipforum.co.uk/about3451.html
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| | My Family: First Past the Post - TV.com |
| | We don't have trivia for First Past the Post. | | | We don't have allusions for First Past the Post. | | | We don't have notes for First Past the Post. |
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http://www.tv.com/my-family/first-past-the-post/episode/325723/summary.html
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| | Gloucestershire County Council - Racecourse is First Past the Post! - 14/09/05 |
| | Gloucestershire County Council submitted its bid for funding to the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) in June and has recently heard that it was successful. | | | Gloucestershire County Council - Racecourse is First Past the Post! | | | Cheltenham is going to be the first racecourse in the country to offer a Playing for Success (PFS) facility, using a series of refurbished hospitality boxes behind the main grandstand. |
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http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/index.cfm?Articleid=11688
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| | Small savings go first past the post- The Times of India |
| | Budget To End Post Offices' 150-Year, Rs 4.35 Lakh Crore Monopoly On Deposits | | | MUMBAI: This could be the end of history as we've known it. | | | That's about to end if finance minister P Chidambaram has his way and amends the Government Savings Banks Act, 1873. |
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/772980.cms
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| | Guardian Unlimited Sport Horse racing Irish Hussar to be first past Post |
| | WARWICK 3.15: Venetia Williams has done a brilliant job with the limited talent at her disposal this year. | | | She has no peer at finding the right races for her string and King On The Run, who has a superb record first time out, is well treated on form he was showing before a long absence. | | | The winner appeared to get first run on the selection that day and that, allied to the pull in the weights, should enable Irish Hussar to turn the tables. |
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http://sport.guardian.co.uk/horseracing/story/0,10149,1158193,00.html
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| | Against First Past the post |
| | As he argues “ we stand in elections to build the movement”, but how does PR prevent, and FPTP aid this? | | | To go back to his first point we get involved in electoral politics as one way of getting our politics across, not as an end in itself. | | | But if we are trying to win people to a democratic socialist politics defending the indefensible will not do this – and FPTP, on democratic grounds, is impossible to defend. |
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http://www.socialistunitynetwork.co.uk/voices/pr2.htm
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| | babble: Why "First past the post" electoral systems suck. |
| | posted 11 June 2004 01:52 PM This issue has gone all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. | | | Supposes party A won all 10 of the ridings with 80% of the vote in each one. | | | Martin suggested - not for the first time - that he might be willing to examine a democratic reform measure that has become a pet cause of New Democrat Leader Jack Layton. |
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http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=35&t=000247
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| | DARD News: First past the post |
| | This is the first year that HND horticulture students have graduated from Greenmount having completed 3 years of study at the College. | | | This year's prize day at Greenmount College will be special for one group of students in particular. | | | The first cohort from the Higher National Diploma in Horticulture will step onto the platform to receive their awards on Wednesday 28 June. |
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http://www.dardni.gov.uk/pr2000/pr000225.htm
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| | President of the World - "First past the post" vote |
| | This is closest to the system currently used in both America and Britain, where you can vote for only one candidate on the ballot. | | | This is the "first past the post" (single option) version. | | | President of the World - "First past the post" vote |
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http://surveycentral.org/AdvStats/4826.html
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| | The Head Heeb: First-past-the-post in Israel? |
| | We call it "first past the post." The country should be divided into 120 different constituencies of more-or-less similar voter numbers. | | | In the first few district-based elections, the advantage in winning these seats will go to the established Arab parties with the strongest local organizations - which means that Balad will be first past the post in most of the Galilee, and the United Arab List or Ta'al in the Triangle. | | | This would, no doubt, make it easier to arrange seats in the Knesset, but whether it would bring political stability is a different, and more difficult, question. |
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http://headheeb.blogmosis.com/archives/014941.html
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| | BBC - Liverpool Local History - Stars - Red Rum |
| | He died on October 18th 1995 at the age of 30 and is buried at the finishing line with his head facing the winning post. | | | He followed this in 1974 with his second Grand National win leading the field for the final stages, even though he was as third favourite at 11-1. | | | After his retirement Red Rum returned to Aintree many times to lead the parade of horses before the race. |
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| | First Past the Post and BNP - The Education Forum |
| | The organisation claims that under the first past the post system the BNP could end up in charge of Burnley borough council within two elections. | | | According to chief executive Ken Ritchie changing the voting system would hamper the party& progress. | | | The far-right British National Party could win control in Burnley unless the voting system is changed, according to the Electoral Reform Society. |
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http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=241
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| | EW - Environment Waikato sticks with First-Past-the-Post voting system |
| | Environment Waikato today voted unanimously to stick with the First-Past-the-Post voting system (FPP), rather than switch to Single Transferrable Vote (STV). | | | Mrs Vernon says that each council needs to make its own decisions on the FPP/STV issue, depending on its local conditions — and Environment Waikato’s decision to stick with FPP should not be regarded as a reflection on any other council’s decision. | | | Mrs Vernon says that while Environment Waikato had opted to retain the FPP system, a public petition of 5 per cent of the electorate (12,737 electors) would require a poll on the issue. |
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| | Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants |
| | Their first party title are of consistently high quality and they have good (if not great) hardware. | | | Grady responded, both in comments and on his own blog, that he'd been misquoted. | | | And the Yankees apparently believe that Garciaparra would prefer to play first base in Los Angeles over a job as a first baseman-DH in New York, in part because he owns two homes in southern California. |
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http://cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3304886905
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| | babble: First-past-the-post exaggerates regional differences |
| | posted 11 August 2003 11:45 PM 'No party can say it speaks for all Nova Scotians and that hints at the legitimacy of the government' | | | posted 10 August 2003 10:55 AM Even in Nova Scotia, our primitive voting system exaggerates regional differences. | | | We all know that it does so nationally. |
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http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=6&t=000207
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| | First Past the Post - the Digital Politics Magazine |
| | First Past the Post - the Digital Politics Magazine | | | A 1 year Personal subscription for the 2005/06 editions of First Past the Post tutor2u's digital magazine for politics. Dozens of topical articles and case studies provide the most focused, contemporary commentary available for students and teachers of AS and A2 politics. | | | A 1 year school/college subscription is available for the 2005/06 editions of First Past the Post - tutor2u's digital magazine for politics. The most focused, contemporary commentary available for students and teachers of AS and A2 politics. |
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http://www.tutor2u.net/acatalog/first_past_the_post_politics_magazine.html
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| | BBC - Schools - Citizen X - Lowdown |
| | Put simply, it means a system in which the candidate who gets more votes than any other candidate is elected. | | | People often refer to it as first past the post because it describes the system very well. | | | The correct name for the type of electoral system which is used in the UK is the Plurality System. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/citizenx/local/democracy/lowdown/democracy_basics_3.shtml
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