Question

What do you understand by the First Past The Post System (FPTPS)​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Members of Congress are elected in single-member districts according to the "first-past-the-post" (FPTP) principle, meaning that the candidate with the plurality of votes is the winner of the congressional seat. The losing party or parties win no representation at all.

Answer 2

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Where a candidate is elected on a simple majority, it is called 'First past the post system'. In India , the candidate who gets the highest number of votes is declared elected .

In a situation when there are only two Candidate , it is mathematical principle that the winner gets more than 50 percent . In India , we have multi - concerned contests where there are four or five or even more than five candidates .

Under such circumstances, a candidate with even less than 50 percent of the total votes cast can get elected. This simple majority system is also called first past the post system . Members of our Lok Sabha and the State assemblies are elected by this system .