https://padlet.com/jackthfc1/59s5sb4qax9 en-us 2017-10-27 11:18:30 UTC 2017-10-27 12:38:23 UTC hello@padlet.com jackthfc1 https://padlet.com/jackthfc1/59s5sb4qax9/wish/201145409 First past the post is what the UK currently use to elect in MPs into the House of Commons and parliament. There is 650 single constituencies in the UK and each constituency must elect one member of parliament, the MP that has the most votes will win and will get a place in parliament, a member of a constituency only needs one more seat than the nearest rival to win more seats and get the majority. An advantage of FPTP is that it is very unlikely that an extremist party have little chance of being elected into parliament because they are unlikely to to gain enough votes in one constituency. This election process is used in local elections in England and Wales, however they are split into wards because of the number of people voting will be a lot smaller. In wards they elect a specific number of councilors, they are elected for 4 years and when the 4 years are up then they have to do the process all over again. A negative for this election process is that it is very time consuming because each vote is counted individually.]]> 2017-10-27 11:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jackthfc1/59s5sb4qax9/wish/201145409 jackthfc1 https://padlet.com/jackthfc1/59s5sb4qax9/wish/201150125 This election system is very different from FPTP because instead of each constituency voting for one MP each voter in the constituency will rank candidates in order, with 1 being the highest. Which ever candidate gains more than 50% of the votes for being voters first choice then they are the ones who are elected. If no one gets 50% or over them the person with the most amount of first preference vote wins and is elected. This election process also has a benefit this being that it is not as time consuming as FPTP and the single transferable vote. This system is a simple system because if someone gets over 50% of the first choices then they win and become elected.]]> 2017-10-27 11:49:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jackthfc1/59s5sb4qax9/wish/201150125 jackthfc1 https://padlet.com/jackthfc1/59s5sb4qax9/wish/201155967 This system is similar to the alternative vote because you vote in the same way 1,2,3 and 1 is your first choice. However you do not rank the people you rank the parties that candidates are in that you agree with their views the most, the votes can be for the same party or different parties. MPs that are available for being selected have passed a certain quotas with specific criteria. Any candidate that has been voted for which is people 1st choice is elected. The candidates which didn’t get voted as 1st choice and that didn’t stay within the quota are transferred to the remaining MPs. This system can be confusing for voters because if the candidates don’t get the quota they needed then their votes are transferred to someone else. This is a negative thing because because it means that people may not like who their votes have been passed onto because they have different views.]]> 2017-10-27 12:13:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jackthfc1/59s5sb4qax9/wish/201155967 jackthfc1 https://padlet.com/jackthfc1/59s5sb4qax9/wish/201159442 This election process is used to elect the mayor of London and other elected mayors in England and Wales. This voting system voter will get ballot paper with 2 columns where voters will put an X in the columns where their first and second choice are. For this you can only vote for 1 if you would prefer to rather than 2 because you only agree with one persons view not 2. When it comes to who the winner is it is very similar to alternative vote because the winner will have 50% of votes but of no one gets the majority then the two candidates with the highest number of votes and are retained and the other candidates are eliminated, the second preferences on the ballot papers of the eliminated candidates are counted and any cast for the two remaining candidates are transferred. The candidate with the most votes at the end of this process is elected. ]]> 2017-10-27 12:23:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jackthfc1/59s5sb4qax9/wish/201159442