A referendum in 2011 saw UK voters reject the idea of replacing First Past The Post with the Alternative Voting system. Sign up to the Front Page newsletter for free: Your essential guide to the ...

Minority of the vote: In most constituencies more people (in total) vote against the winning candidate than for them. Sometimes an MP can be elected on a vote as low as only 35%, a minority ...

First-past-the-post voting, which awards elections to the candidate who commands a plurality, encourages a two-party duopoly.

Nigel Farage, the Reform UK Party leader and MP for Clacton, said the first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system was unfair because his party took 14.3 per cent of the vote — making it the ...

Despite a few attempts by politicians to abandon it, the proportional representation system has stayed the course in Ireland ...

Duverger demonstrated that election outcomes and party systems are determined by electoral institutions and how the votes are tallied. First-past-the-post electoral systems, like in the U.S ...

While Britain's first-past-the-post voting system means Reform's popularity will not be reflected in the Commons, the Tories "should, frankly, be terrified", wrote Andrew Marr for The New ...

The targeted change will have to take place in our “first past the post” electoral system. If the goals and objectives of the “movement for independent candidates” are greater ...

The swing states that took the longest in 2020 and could again be slow this year: Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada. If the ...

Americans are voting every day, either early at a polling place or by mail. When CNN reports the number of early ballots returned or requested, the data is coming from a company called Catalist.

As it stands, the B.C. NDP has about 44.6 per cent of the vote, the B.C. Conservative Party 43.6 per cent, and the B.C. Green Party 8.2 per cent. Under B.C.'s first-past-the-post electoral ...

More than 300,000 Georgians cast a ballot Tuesday for the November election, the first day of early voting, doubling the state’s Day 1 record. On Wednesday, there were no signs that the pace was ...