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a voting system used by some countries to elect their
governments or the members of their parliaments. In a first-
past-the-post system, a country is divided into constituencies,
and in these constituencies people known as candidates, who each
represent a different political party will stand for election to
the country's parliament. In the individual constituencies, the
candidate who gets the most votes from people, wins the race to
be elected to a seat in parliament.  If a party wins over 50% of
the seats, it can form a majority government. If no single party
wins over 50% of the seats, then either the party with the most
seats can form a minority government, or a coalition government
can be formed from two or more of the other political parties
who together have over 50% of the seats.  Countries using First-
past-the-post include the United Kingdom, Canada, India and
partly in the United State