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Electoral systems and voting behavior.
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POLITICS EXAM Q'S- ELECTRAL SYSTEMS AND VOTING BEHAVIOR 1 The FPTP electoral system usually enables strong and decisive government because one party (in England - Labour or the Tories) gain a big majority. Decisive government is formed when one party gains such a large majority it is able to carry out all of its policies without being outvoted by other parties. Using the table you can identify that even if all the other parties join and vote together they will only have the backing of 246 seats in comparison to Labour who have 413 seats. This allows them a huge majority of 167 seats (63% to 43%). This means that even if a few of Labours Mps vote against a particular policy it will still easily pass. In fact 84 Labour Mps (14%) would have to vote against a policy for even a chance of being overruled. Thus making a very...
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