South Korea uses a first-past-the-post system, and so the candidate with the most votes will become president.
Secondly, the first-past-the-post system exaggerates the advantage of the winning party, particularly at the expense of third parties.
Countries considering changing their first-past-the post system had been alarmed by the results of the New Zealand experiment.
Not all parents will need to use the post system for an application.
Until then, two parties, National and Labour, had had a stranglehold on politics in New Zealand in a first-past-the-post system.
In short, stable majorities are harder to establish (a coalition even runs Britain, where the first-past-the-post system is designed for single-party government).
Both are hopeful of winning their first ever seats in the House of Commons, although the UK's first-past-the-post system works against them.
The No campaign claimed the Australian public is agitating for a return to the return past the post system, which is ludicrous.
Under the current, first-past-the-post system, activists complain, Liberal Democrats win a smaller share of parliamentary seats than their share of the vote.
Pakistan has a first-past-the-post system, so people vote for one of the mainstream parties that have the best chance of coming to power.
In that Today interview he said UKIP did not have any MPs because "the first-past-the-post system is brutal to a party like us".
As well as assembly seats, people have also voted on whether to replace the first-past-the-post system for electing Westminster MPs with the alternative vote (AV).
The voting system is highly complex, with two-thirds of the 498 elected seats being decided by proportional representation and the rest by a first-past-the-post system.
The South East, like the country as a whole, voted overwhelmingly ' No' to changing the voting system from the current first-past-the-post system to the alternative vote.
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The Conservatives agreed to a referendum over whether to replace the first-past-the-post system for electing MPs with the alternative vote (AV) as part of their coalition negotiations.
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The public will be asked whether they want to replace the existing first-past-the-post system for electing MPs to Westminster with a method known as the alternative vote (AV).
That nothing changes but if change is a must, a move to 30 seats to match future Westminster seats with two AMs elected in each, both via the first-past-the-post system.
Over half the people polled favoured a first-past-the-post system.
MPs believe that it would ruin the quasi-mystical relationship between a member of Parliament and his or her individual constituency, which is the only thing voters like about the existing first-past-the-post system.
The Communists, who feared their own extinction under a first-past-the-post system, are delighted, even if 21m Italians did demand new rules and fewer than 3m turned out to defend the status quo.
Gerrard Batten, UKIP MEP for London, said UKIP's performance on Thursday had "broken the psychological barrier with the electorate", as voters now believed a vote for UKIP could count in the first-past-the-post system.
MPs are currently debating legislation required to pave the way for a referendum on the way they are elected and whether to change the current first-past-the-post system in favour of an Alternative Vote method.
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Thanks to Singapore's first-past-the-post system, the opposition has never translated its roughly one-third of the votes into more than four seats, and at the last election, in 1997, won just two out of 83 seats.
He also hit out at the present proportional representation system for voting for assembly members which he described as leading to "perverse outcomes", with candidates defeated in a first-past-the-post system getting in under the regional list ballot.
Wailing even more operatically are several cameo figures who have been able to exercise some influence under the present arrangement, but whose parties might be wiped out if a new law were to give Italy an entirely first-past-the-post system.
Under the other option, the boundaries would be changed so that they're co-terminous with the Westminster seats, 30 AMs would be elected via the first-past-the-post system in a specific constituency, while another 30 would be elected via the list system.
At the conclusion of the debate on his amendment, Mr Chope, a supporter of the current first-past-the-post system, did not force a vote on the matter, but gave notice that he might re-visit it during later stages of the bill.
The one big idea that looms is that of electoral reform, but it is hardly new: the Liberal Democrats, the keenest advocates (and principal beneficiaries) of a change in the voting system, have been complaining about Britain's first-past-the-post system for years.
In the last one its share of the vote was only three points higher than the Tories', but the first-past-the-post system, and the less-even distribution of Conservative voters, translated this slender preference into 356 seats in the 646-member House of Commons.
Little wonder that many senior members of Mr Blair's cabinet, including John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, Gordon Brown, the chancellor and Jack Straw, the home secretary, have let it be known that they would prefer to stick with the current first-past-the-post system.
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