castanyes blaves

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4/30/2006

First-past-the-post voting system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality_electoral_system#Where_plurality_voting_is_used

Where plurality voting is used:

Countries that use this system to elect the lower or only house of their legislature include:

* Antigua and Barbuda

* Bahamas

* Bangladesh

* Barbados

* Belize

* Bhutan

* Botswana

* Canada

* Dominica

* Ethiopia

* The Gambia

* Ghana

* Grenada

* India (Proportional representation in upper house)

* Jamaica

* Kenya

* Malawi

* Malaysia

* Federated States of Micronesia

* Morocco

* Nepal

* Nigeria

* Pakistan

* Palau

* Papua New Guinea

* Rwanda

* Saint Kitts and Nevis

* Saint Lucia

* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

* Samoa

* Singapore

* Solomon Islands

* South Korea

* Swaziland

* Tanzania

* Tonga

* Trinidad and Tobago

* Tuvalu

* Uganda

* United Kingdom (Parliamentary and local government elections in England and Wales only, PR in elections for EU)

* United States (except for Louisiana)

* Yemen

* Zambia

* Zimbabwe

Excepting the UK and the USA, plurality voting isn't quite common in most developed countries. Something to think about...

posted by avilella # 4:44 PM

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