First past the post were Daniel Seaford from Reading Canoe Club and Stuart West from Worcester Canoe Club.
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The reform society said STV gave voters greater influence on results than the former system, First Past the Post.
And there may also be an amendment to switch elections to the Holyrood Parliament to first past the post, from the current variant of the additional member system.
Under the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, a referendum on whether to replace first past the post with the AV system would be held on 5 May 2011 next year.
The Conservatives vehemently oppose the alternative vote, arguing that the current first past the post voting system "delivers clear, clean results" even if it does currently seem to work against them.
Its analysis of council elections in Scotland and England, where First Past the Post was used, showed voters north of the border having a better chance of getting who they voted for.
During the debate, Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski who is chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Promotion of First Past the Post, said that the referendum was a waste of time.
In the three force areas where just two candidates are standing - Dyfed-Powys, North Yorkshire and Staffordshire - registered voters will be presented with a familiar "first past the post" ballot paper.
The horse who took him first past the post for the seventh time that day is now long retired and spends his days grazing in the grounds of Dettori's home in the traditional British racing town of Newmarket.
The bill provides for a referendum on changing the Westminster voting system from first past the post to the alternative vote (AV), making constituencies more equal in population size and cutting the number of MPs from 650 to 600.
The idea is simple: propel yourself down two narrow 120-metre-long bog water-filled trenches using only your feet (no swimming strokes allowed) and the first to past the peaty post is the winner.
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.
But the first-past-the-post voting system for MPs is a huge obstacle for any small party.
But had it not been for the peculiarities of the first-past-the-post voting system, it would have won more.
Secondly, the first-past-the-post system exaggerates the advantage of the winning party, particularly at the expense of third parties.
Mr Putin also plans to abolish the first-past-the-post contests that currently fill half the seats in the parliament (Duma).
In future, if the first-past-the-post electoral system is replaced by a more proportional system, such powers may become more important.
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).
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".
Many of the first-past-the-post polls have gone to a second round and the proportional part of the vote will not be announced until later.
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 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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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.
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.
Mr Clegg says co-operation with the other parties will also depend on their commitment to a more redistributive tax system, more spending on poor schoolchildren, a greener economy and political reform, such as ditching the first-past-the-post voting model.
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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.
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.
On Wednesday Mr Brown set out some of his intentions for constitutional reform - which included looking at whether Britain should change the first-past-the-post electoral system and reforming the House of Lords - both of which would be unlikely to change before next election.
Now, in addition to the 80 first-past-the-post assembly seats, 40 members will be elected on a separate party-list system.
The force was one of just three in England and Wales to use the traditional first-past-the-post method with just two candidates standing.
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