Sentences with phrase «majoritarian election»

Mixed member proportional representation (MMP), also called the additional member system (AMS), is a two - tier mixed electoral system combining a non-proportional plurality / majoritarian election and a compensatory regional or national party list PR election.

The system you describe is called and individual majoritarian election, generally referred to as «first - past - the - post.»

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The switch from discretionary election timing to fixed term Parliaments makes a significant change to the majoritarian traditions of government in the UK.

It suggests extending the majoritarian first - past - the - post system to regional elections for police and crime commissioners and metro mayors.

As Douglas W. Rae points out in the standard reference work The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws, majoritarian electoral systems are extremely rare for multi-seat legislatures, only being well established in Australia, and for second round voting in some French elections.

Peter Riddell, political commentator and assistant editor at The Times, told Channel 4 News: «In Britain we live in a majoritarian political culture, so in the event of a hung parliament all the players will be thinking of a second general election.

Finally, while party rivalry is generally intense in the majoritarian and adversarial British political system, the 2010 - 15 coalition government and the relatively close majority after the 2015 general election meant additional competitive pressures.

Although this from of governance is often buttressed by populist, majoritarian justifications, the recent elections in Armenia, Kenya, Venezuela, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Zimbabwe brought into question the legitimacy of not only the supposed winners, but also the entire social and political system that enabled these disputed victories to occur.