'First Past the Post fails the people it is meant to serve - it needs to change'

'First Past the Post fails the people it is meant to serve - it needs to change'

Hampshire elects its first mayor next year - assuming officials don’t request to cancel elections to extend their term again.

First-past-the-post concentrates power at the top - Fair Vote Canada

First-past-the-post can hand one party a majority government with less than half the vote. They can use that power to give themselves more.

Email to the Editor: Is the current voting system fair?

Why do we vote the way we do in Canada? Most of us are used to the system called First Past the Post, but have you ever stopped to ask if it’s really fair? Under the First Past the Post (FPTP) system, the country is divided into ridings. In each one, the candidate with the most votes wins, even if they only get 30 or 35 percent of the vote. The party that wins the most ridings often forms government, even if they received far less than 50 percen…