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byroon@lemmy.world 8 months agoplurality voting system (aka first-past-the-post voting) which is the system used by… much of the rest of the world
Is this accurate? My understanding is that at least in Europe, it is only the UK and Belarus that use first-past-the-post; everywhere else uses some form of proportional voting.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s not the majority of the world, but there are a few dozen countries that primarily use FPTP. It’s used in North America, Europe, Africa, South Asia, the Middle East and a bunch of Pacific island nations. Belarus and the UK appear to be the only European nations to do so though, yes.
Here’s a map of the counties that primarily use FPTP: en.m.wikipedia.org/…/First-past-the-post_voting#/…
Also proportional voting is only used for groups of elected seats, not single winner elections.
jarfil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Some more countries use FPTP to decide part of their representatives, just not for all of them.
Then again, some countries are also democratic monarchies, with different heir picking rules.