The 2025 Bihar Assembly election has renewed attention on India's First Past the Post (FPTP) electoral system, exposing once ...

The two-party system, by itself, is not inherently bad. Even countries with multiparty elections tend to have two dominant parties. What hurts the US is the electoral system used, first-past-the-post ...

Vote share indicates the percentage of valid votes received by a party. In India's FPTP system, a party can win seats without a majority.

Before the final results came in from the U.K.’s general election, in which Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party won a surprise majority, many British voters were already demanding reform ...

“The idea that first past the post is a strong and stable system is just a joke now,” says Darren Hughes of the Electoral Reform Society. By Rachel Cunliffe “Undemocratic, obscure, unfair and crazy.” ...

We must first focus on the harder things that reduce the legitimacy of any election process in the eyes of the voters such as ...