Hello and welcome to another edition of The Weekly Vine. In this week’s edition, we take a look at Trump’s new cabinet, the ...

The proportional electoral system, which has come in the spotlight amid discussions of constitutional reform, is not possible in the context of Bangladesh, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul said ...

All councillors in Wales are currently elected using a simple majority system, commonly known as first past the post (FPTP), ...

Explore how India's election results in 2014, 2019, and 2024 might look under a US-style Electoral College system, ...

A potential change to the way Ceredigion councillors are elected is to be decided at a special meeting of the council later this week ...

Given these realities, we must adapt our strategy accordingly. In first past the post (FPTP) elections, like the recent by-election, “unity” means standing aside for the strongest pro-independence ...

It is an all too common by-product of a first past the post (FPTP) electoral system that inclines to reduce politics to ...

While vote share alone does not directly correlate with seat wins in the FPTP (First-Past-The-Post) system, these numbers give the MVA a slight edge, bolstered by the potential negative impact of ...

This disparity underscores the urgent need for a united approach to maximise representation under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system. Given these realities, we must adapt our strategy accordingly.

The party-list acts as a compensatory device for securing party proportionality in the (inevitable) event of distortion that may arise from the first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral design used for ...

In a country as diverse as South Africa, this aspect is indispensable. While constituency-based systems, such as "First-Past-the-Post" (FPTP), often result in the overrepresentation of dominant ...