It's all down to the crass and unpardonable stupidity of the first-past-the-post electoral system.
It is a wholly possible, perverse and predictable consequence of the first-past-the-post voting system.
And probably not, actually, because of the first-past-the-post voting system.
It demonstrates the utter unfitness of the first-past-the-post system that we have in Westminster".
In the October 2012 elections, he won 24.3 percent of the first round vote and 74.4 percent of the first-past-the-post runoff, giving him the seat.
Despite the aim of the NCMP scheme to ameliorate the impacts of the first-past-the-post system, its legitimacy is highly doubted.
Of the 35 countries with the most robust economies, only six solely use the first-past-the-post system.
Third parties have been tried and failed over and over in American history; the first-past-the-post system of congressional elections ensures they never get very far.
The first-past-the-post electoral system can obstruct the rise of multiparty politics but not reverse it.
The first-past-the-post system is unfit for purpose.
