Even with high - quality survey data with huge sample sizes, predicting hundreds of constituency - level results in a first - past - the - post electoral system with varying patterns of interparty competition remains a risky business. (theconversation.com)
[1] It was the Liberal Party, a forerunner of today's Liberal Democrats, that was most interested in revision, as the first - past - the - post electoral system produced such disproportionate Parliamentary majorities out of mere electoral pluralities as to render third parties» situation hopeless. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
@Chloe - they DO side with GOP or Democrats, not out of some deep ideological intricacies of Nolan Chart, but out of the first - past - the - post electoral system enforcing the dominance of only 2 parties. (politics.stackexchange.com)