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first-past-the-post voting

electoral system in which voters indicate the candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins
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first-past-the-post voting

Summary

first-past-the-post voting is an electoral system[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of electoral_system entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,088 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • first-past-the-post voting's image is recorded as Plurality ballot.svg[3].
  • first-past-the-post voting's instance of is recorded as electoral system[4].
  • first-past-the-post voting's subclass of is recorded as plurality voting system[5].
  • first-past-the-post voting's Commons category is recorded as First-past-the-post voting[6].
  • first-past-the-post voting's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09k4hds[7].
  • first-past-the-post voting's used by is recorded as House of Commons[8].
  • first-past-the-post voting's used by is recorded as U.S. state[9].
  • first-past-the-post voting's contributing factor of is recorded as swing district[10].
  • first-past-the-post voting's contributing factor of is recorded as majority government[11].
  • first-past-the-post voting's contributing factor of is recorded as two-party system[12].
  • first-past-the-post voting's contributing factor of is recorded as extremism[13].
  • first-past-the-post voting's contributing factor of is recorded as tactical voting[14].
  • first-past-the-post voting's has effect is recorded as wasted vote[15].
  • first-past-the-post voting's has effect is recorded as safe seat[16].
  • first-past-the-post voting's BBC Things ID is recorded as c9b6cf7b-6079-42f7-9b3c-2bc5785e1f0f[17].
  • first-past-the-post voting's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'First-past-the-post'}[18].
  • first-past-the-post voting's different from is recorded as majority rule[19].
  • first-past-the-post voting's different from is recorded as plurality voting system[20].
  • first-past-the-post voting's uses is recorded as single-member district[21].
  • first-past-the-post voting's uses is recorded as Winner-take-all system[22].
  • first-past-the-post voting's The Guardian topic ID is recorded as politics/firstpastthepost[23].
  • first-past-the-post voting's Quora topic ID is recorded as FPTP[24].
  • first-past-the-post voting's Quora topic ID is recorded as Plurality-Voting[25].
  • first-past-the-post voting's Quora topic ID is recorded as First-Past-the-Post[26].
  • first-past-the-post voting's EuroVoc ID is recorded as 3982[27].

Why It Matters

first-past-the-post voting ranks in the top 3% of electoral_system entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,088 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  15. [17] ↑ . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
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  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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