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unusual facts about first past the post



Ayr by-election, 2000

The Labour Party in the South of Scotland region had won 7 seats, all as first past the post constituencies and none on the list system through proportional representation, whilst the Conservative and Unionists had won 4 seats in South of Scotland through the proportional representation system.

Chitra Bahadur K.C.

Chitra Bahadur K.C. won the Baglung-2 seat in the 2008 Constituent Assembly election, the sole RJM candidate to win a seat in the First Past the Post system.

Indian Councils Act 1909

Muslims had expressed serious concern that a ‘first past the post’ British type of electoral system would leave them permanently subject to Hindu majority rule.

Scottish Westminster constituencies 1950 to 1955

In Scotland, where boundaries had been unaltered since 1918, the legislation defined 32 burgh constituencies (BCs) and 39 county constituencies (CCs), with each electing one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

University of Oxford Chancellor election, 2003

It was also the first election to use the single transferable vote, after the previous election by first past the post in 1987 saw two conservative candidates (Robert Blake, Baron Blake and Sir Edward Heath) splitting the conservative vote at 2,500 each, allowing social democrat Roy Jenkins to win with just 3,500 votes.


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Caroline Lucas

However, she is not the first Green Candidate to be elected under a first-past-the-post electoral system, as this was Jeanette Fitzsimons of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand in the Coromandel Electorate in 1999.

Elections in Poland

The Senate (Senat) has 100 members elected for a four-year term via the first past-the-post system, with 100 single member constituencies.