In the UK they have a first past the post voting system, where it’s common to have multiple people running for the same seat in Parliament, the person who wins the most votes wins and quite often gets nowhere near 50% of the vote because of how it’s divided up among all the candidates running.
This type of systems greatly favors Labor and the Torries.
In France, they have rounds of voting, in the first round, the top two vote winners run against each other at a later date everyone else gets eliminated.
> In France, they have rounds of voting, in the first round, the top two vote winners run against each other at a later date everyone else gets eliminated. <
That’s an excellent system. It eliminates the spoiler effect, and gives third parties a chance. At a minimum, we should be doing that here for presidential elections.
We have essentially the same system. Our two parteies are far more dominant. Except in POTUS elections and some local elections the minority parties are invisible. And even in local elections they act as spoilers. See NY’s Liberal and Conservative Parties.
In elections like ours or the UK’s pluralities win.