Why did India adopt the FPTP …

because for elections to lok sabha and state legislative assembly India has adopted the FPTP system The reasons for success of FPTP include : 1 Simplicity and Accountability The PR system of elections is quite complicated. It can work in small countries but it is unsuitable for a sub- continental country like india. For common voters ,the FPTP system is easy to understand and operate. Voters have to simply choose a candidate or a party while voting. Voters may give importance to either the party or thr candidate or strike a balance between both. In the PR system, voters vote for parties and representatives are chosen as on the basis of party list. As a result no one is real representative. In FPTP , the voters know and can approach the representative of their constituency and can also hold them accountable. 2 . Stable Government The framers of indian constitution felt that PR system may not provide stable Government in the legislature and PR system may not produce clear majority since seats are alloted in legislature on the basis of vote share. The FPTP system allows largest party or coalition to form a government with a majority, more than PR system of sharung votes may give. The FPTP system therefore provides stability to parliamentary government . 3 . Wide representation FPTP system encourages representatives of different communities to win election in a locality. The PR system would lead each community to form a nationwide party in India since the nation is full of diverse groups. The framers of Indian constitution have lived upto the expectations of the Indian people. The FPTP syst is a simple and familiar system for ordinary voters. It helps huge parties to win majority at central and state levels. It has even discouraged parties to get votes only from one social group. Normally the functioning of FPTP system leads to a two party system. But in India first it was one party dominance while small parties existed. Sice 1989, it has led to rise of multi-party coalition in India. But in many states two party competition is emerging . Likewise, the distinct feature of Indian party system is that the rise of coalition has made it possible for new and small parties to enter into open electoral competition deapie the existence of FPTP system.

Our country 'India' adopted the FPTP system because of the following reasons:- 1.) Biggest democratic country 'lndia' :- First reason, our country is large and has a very good and great amount of population. In order to represent this large and diverse population, lndia adopted FPTP system. 2.) Simplicity of FPTP system:- If we look at PR system and FPTP system then clearly we can say that the FPTP system is not complex and can be easily understood by literates, old people, illiterate, remote village people etc. 3.) FPTP system involves less chances of confusion:- lf we look at this system then it can be clearly understood that this system saves our precious time as this system involves only one time voting whereas PR system involves voting two or three times. It also prevents the chances of confusion in counting votes. 4.)FPTP is good for having a majority seats secured by any party:- In Parliamentary system, the executive plays a big role and in such cases there should be a party( elected by majority) to look after the works. In PR system, the seats are shared in proportion to each party's votes. Thus, there should be a party with maximum number of seats without using any complex process.

India adopted this system because for elections to lok sabha and state legislative assembly India has adopted the FPTP system

The reasons for success of FPTP include :

1 Simplicity and Accountability: The PR system of elections is quite complicated. It can work in small countries but it is unsuitable for a sub- continental country like india. For common voters ,the FPTP system is easy to understand and operate. Voters have to simply choose a candidate or a party while voting. Voters may give importance to either the party or thr candidate or strike a balance between both. In the PR system, voters vote for parties and representatives are chosen as on the basis of party list. As a result no one is real representative. In FPTP , the voters know and can approach the representative of their constituency and can also hold them accountable.

2 . Stable Government: The framers of indian constitution felt that PR system may not provide stable Government in the legislature and PR system may not produce clear majority since seats are alloted in legislature on the basis of vote share. The FPTP system allows largest party or coalition to form a government with a majority, more than PR system of sharung votes may give. The FPTP system therefore provides stability to parliamentary government .

3 . Wide representation: FPTP system encourages representatives of different communities to win election in a locality. The PR system would lead each community to form a nationwide party in India since the nation is full of diverse groups.