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Describe the methods of election adopted in in india. Distinguish between FPTP system and proportional system of representation.

Posted by King Gourav 4 years ago

CBSE > Class 11 > Political Science

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Sia ? 4 years ago

There are many variations in electoral systems, but the most common systems are first-past-the-post voting, the two-round (runoff) system, proportional representation and ranked voting. Some electoral systems, such as mixed systems, attempt to combine the benefits of non-proportional and proportional systems.

BASIS FOR COMPARISON	FIRST PAST THE POST	PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION
Meaning	First Past the Post is a voting system, wherein people cast their votes to the candidate of their choice and the one getting the highest number of votes win.	Proportional Representation is an electoral device in which seats are allotted to the political parties on the basis of the number of votes polled for them.
Constituency	Entire country is segregated into various geographical units, i.e. constituencies.	Large geographical areas are termed as constituencies.
Representative	One representative is elected from each constituency.	One or more representative can be elected from one constituency.
Voting	Votes are casted for candidate.	Votes are casted for the party.
Seats	Votes may or may not be equal to the seats got.	A party gets seats, as per the proportion of votes, it gets.
Majority	Winning candidate may not gets the majority votes.	Winning candidate gets the majority votes.
Accountability	Exists	Does not exist
Clashing of Ideas	Does not prevail	May Prevail