Talk:Proportional representation

@AndyAnderson:

When we're using first-past-the-post without "voting" or "system" after it, it's not serving as a compound modifier used predicatively (we're not saying "the system is FPTP"), it's serving as a compound noun relaying the name of the system (we're saying "FPTP is a system"). (Although, as per MOS:HYPHEN, even compound modifiers used predicatively are sometimes hyphenated: The turkeys were hand-fed.)

Compound nouns can be open (high school), closed (football), or hyphenated (love-in). For clarity and per the status quo, we generally refer to single-winner plurality as first-past-the-post with hyphens. Hence my reversion of your changes. —Joeyconnick (talk) 00:07, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

This compound noun stands alone, it’s not being used predicatively. Who is the “we” in “we generally refer”? I usually see FPTP spelled without hyphens when used as a noun, and it looks very weird to me otherwise. I’ll show you an example, a reference from this very page:
"India's parliamentary government and First Past the Post (FPTP) electoral system is a legacy of British colonialism, which ended in 1947."
And here’s three more, from prominent US newspapers:
"Votes for the pro-Brexit Conservatives had 10 times the effective power of votes for the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats. Thank the electoral system known as “first past the post.”"
"In general, we use a plurality system, sometimes confusingly referred to as “first past the post.”"
"“Sometimes you’ll have a race where there are seven candidates who are similar in ideology and in perception, and they end up splitting a vote, and the eighth candidate who is liked by only like 23 percent of voters ends up winning, because our current election system is first past the post.”"
Show me examples otherwise. — Andy Anderson 00:21, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

As an aside, First Past the Post is a stupid name; it’s a metaphor to horse racing, but unlike that sport there is no “post” in “plurality voting”. I’d much rather we used the latter term everywhere, with an incidental reference to FPTP. — Andy Anderson 00:29, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

The map under “List of countries that use PR” is outdated regarding Tunisia, its latest parliamentary election used a two-round system. 2600:4040:5304:3800:4546:73F7:513:6B45 (talk) 18:23, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Should we actually Establish a category on size of district magnitude? Alagay Ber (talk) 08:37, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Proportionality Representation System. ~2026-12099-92 (talk) 15:14, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

what is the meaning of this?

Speederzzz (Talk) (Stalk) 15:55, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

This is someone trying to cheat on their grade 9 civic education homework. Such comments, which spam comments by the thousands every month, should be deleted per WP:NOTFORUM and not responded to. Gnomingstuff (talk) 20:11, 18 March 2026 (UTC)