Sentence examples for post system and from inspiring English sources

"They may have got within 11 votes of the Liberal Democrats, but it is a first past the post system and it is a good result," he said.

The 1997 Labour manifesto promised a referendum on electoral reform between the current first past the post system and a proportional one proposed by Roy Jenkins.

The newly elected Tory majority government is a consequence of our first past the post system and of our failure to embrace PR when we had the chance.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of a ferrule, post system, and length on the stress distribution of weakened root-filled teeth.

The truth is that some in Labour are just as addicted to our first-past-the-post system and its prize of untrammelled power.

The Liberal Democrats have their ideas, we have our ideas, for example that all seats should be of equal size, so that votes can have an equal value in a first-past-the-post system, and other parties have constructive proposals to put forward as well.

Parties like the NHA start with a disadvantage in the first-past-the-post system, and voters will have to work out for themselves whether they take votes away from larger parties who stand a better chance of toppling the status quo.

Translate that into seats via Britain's first-past-the-post system and the various models (and betting odds) churn out Conservatives 279, Labour 268, Scottish Nationalists (SNP) 53, Lib Dems 25, UKIP 3, others 22. (If that split looks odd, it is because the SNP is sweeping the board in Scotland, taking seats away from Labour).

A law later passed by the Legislature outlines the posting system and provides some privacy safeguards for low-risk offenders.

We have a first-past-the-post system and voters get one vote - we're saying to them vote Labour".

South Korea uses a first-past-the-post system, and so the candidate with the most votes will become president.