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GCSE Citizenship Studies · key term
An electoral system in which each voter chooses one candidate and the candidate receiving the most votes in a constituency wins its seat.
Used by AQA and Edexcel
Paper 1
Revise: First Past the Post SystemFirst Past the Post (FPTP) is the electoral system used to elect MPs to Westminster, the UK Parliament. The UK is divided into 650 parliamentary constituencies. Each constituency is a geographical electoral area which elects one Member of Parliament, or MP, to the House of Commons.
Paper 1, Paper 2
An electoral system in which the candidate receiving the most votes in a constituency wins its seat.
In first-past-the-post, the winner needs more votes than any other candidate, not necessarily more than half the votes.
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Westminster general elections use first-past-the-post, often shortened to FPTP.
