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the difference between first-fast-the-post and proportional representation is that in first-past-the-post person's have to vote for the party and in proportional representation person's have to vote for the candidate who is running for election.

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The way PR works is on national vote totals. So (oversimplifying this a bit), let's say the national vote goes like this...

Conservative = 40%

Labour = 40%

LDP = 20%

That would mean each party would receive that percentage of seats in the commons. The result is that no party would have more than 50%, and to govern, Labour or the Tories would have to get the LDP to join them in a coalition. Okay?

The FPTP system is what we have now. It breaks down the nation into 659 separate electoral districts, with each district having it's own election. Let's create two districts...

District A.

Labour = 15,467

Conservative = 42,670

LDP = 32,875

The conservative candidate wins because he has the "Plurality" of the vote (Meaning: more votes than anyone else, but not an outright majority).

District B

Conservative = 15,467

Labour = 42,987

LDP = 32,000

In this district, Labour has the plurality and Labour wins. Got it?

But look at the LDP. In both districts, they got total votes of over 60,000 and yet they have nothing to show for it. Their argument is that, in essence their voters have been disenfranchised.

That's the difference between the two systems

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The proportional representation system is better than the first-past-the-post system. The former electoral system has been proven that it increases voter turnouts in other countries.

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any candidate who wins at least 15 percent of the votes cast in a primary gets the number of that corresponds to his or her share of that primary vote

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