First-past-the-post voting
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first-past-the-post-voting-189-13270452
title:
First-past-the-post voting
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First-preference plurality (FPP)—often shortened simply to plurality—is a single-winner system of positional voting. Voters typically mark one candidate as their favorite, and the candidate with the largest number of (first-preference) marks is elected, regardless of whether they have a majority or not. The method is often called first-past-the-post (FPTP/FPP), based on a metaphor from horse racing. In social choice theory, FPP is generally thought of as a degenerate form of ranked voting, where
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Plurality voting system
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting
date created:
2003-07-05T19:20:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T11:00:32Z
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