Problems with FPTP voting

Problems with FPTP voting

(first past the post)

DemocracyKing Lion and lioness are both unhappy with the way he is running his kingdom. The citizens want more say in what’s going on

He gives up his crown and It is now to be an elected office. Queen lioness stays in power and sets up two rules to win.

1) Each citizen has one vote2) The candidate with the most votes wins

This system is often called FTTP or First Past The Post voting

This system seems fair at first but it’s a terrible

First election in the animal kingdomThere’s seven candidates

The results are as follows

Leopard wins!

9%

18%

19%

13%

20%

15%

6%

Problem 1Votes

TurtleMonkeyGorillaOwlLeopardTigerTurtle

Tiger won but only 20% of the population wants him80% of people want someone else.Imagine what would happen if there was more than 7 candidates

This is called minority rule

Problem 2

-An unavoidable 2 party system given enough time

This time around people have a beter idea what’s going to happen

Expecialy the people who voted for the candidets that have no chance of wining.

-TurtleAnd-Snake

9%

18%

19%

13%

20%

15%

6%

18%

19% +9%= 28%

13%

20%

15%

6%

Turtle voters aren’t very happy under leopard rule and decide to back the candidet that has the most chance of wining.

Gorilla

18%

19% +9%= 28%

13%

15%

Snake voters WANT to vote for tiger because they have the most in common with him

But gorilla is running a negative campaign agents leopard and the snake voters would be very unhappy under gorilla rule

They vote strategically and support leopard

20%+6%=26%

Gorrila wins the votes and is now crowned king

Snake and turtle now drop out of the race

18%

28%+5%=33%

26%+8%= 34%

15%

This time owl voters decide their candidate can’t win

They are less ideological then the rest of the animal kingdom

They don’t like leopard or gorrila

Owl voters split their votes, voting agents the person don’t like rather than voting for the candidate they support

Owl voters drops out of the race

18%

33% +18%= 51%

34% +15%=49%

15%

Monkey agrees with gorilla on few issues but they really don’t like leopard

Tiger agrees with leopard on few issues but they really don’t like gorilla

The final vote turns out like this

Monkey voters vote for gorilla

Tiger voters vote for leopard

Gorilla wins and is now ruler of the 2 party animal kingdom

49%

51%

Because of the sway in the voting, either candidate could win one year and the other the next but it’s still the same two party's wining

Votes

TurtleMonkeyGorillaOwlLeopardTigerTurtle

The same two partys keep wining but the voters havn’t changed their mind about who that want as ruler

Only 34% of thepopulation wants either one of these party's to be in office

The End

Sourceshttp://www.cgpgrey.com/politics-in-the-animal-kingdom/