First-past-the-post voting
First-past-the-post is 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.  In these constituencies people known as candidates, each of whom usually represents 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. Plurality is another name for such an electoral system.  It is in contrast to the majority system, where the winning candidate must have more votes than all other candidates combined.