first-past-the-post system

Elections are held every four years under the first-past-the-post system.

He did well for an independent with the first-past-the-post system, having limited resources and often little time to campaign.

A member is elected from each constituency by the first-past-the-post system.

The general election was held under the first-past-the-post system.

Under his scheme they would be elected by something close to Britain's first-past-the-post system.

The Parliamentary representative of the division was elected using the first-past-the-post system.

Say what you like about the first-past-the-post system, but it does let you know who has actually won each seat.

The voting system used in local government elections is the first-past-the-post system.

Of the 17, nine are constituency seats, where the first-past-the-post system is in operation.

In a first-past-the-post system, candidate A wins because he receives more votes than anyone else.

Like the 1901 election, voting was voluntary and candidates were elected by the First-past-the-post system.

He was elected from Sindhupalchok constituency no-2 in the first-past-the-post system.

The remaining eight seats are single constituency, elected by a first-past-the-post system.

The election will be held on Wednesday 30 January 2013 under the first-past-the-post system.

Would the end of the first-past-the-post system, with its unpredictable results, not make the business of politics boring?

Voting is mandatory in Singapore and is based on the first-past-the-post system.

The main goal of the party was electoral reform from proportional representation to a first-past-the-post system.

Five are directly elected in single-member constituencies using the first-past-the-post system.

In no way should the vagaries of the first-past-the-post system be an excuse for them to continue, anymore than the economic mess they created.

The first-past-the-post system exists to defend and preserve the "strong" adversarial model.

These results are no less erratic than are achieved under our existing first-past-the-post system.

Secure with that majority, Bennett returned the province to the first-past-the-post system thereafter, which is still in use today.

17 members are directly elected to five year terms from single member constituencies using the first-past-the-post system.

Members are elected from single-member constituencies drawn based on population using the first-past-the-post system.

He advocated replacing the first-past-the-post system with proportional representation.