Past the bend are The Apthorp and the First Baptist Church in the City of New York ( 1891 ), built for a Baptist congregation in New York since 1762.

Among the latter are First Past the Post ( FPP ) ( relative majority ) and absolute majority.

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Republic of Ireland, Australia and New Zealand are notable examples of countries within the UK, or with previous links to it, that use non-FPTP electoral systems ( Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales use First Past the Post in United Kingdom general elections, however ).

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" 299 members represent single-seat constituencies and are elected by a First Past the Post electoral system.

Economist Jeffrey D. Sachs criticizes the First Past The Post arrangement for enabling the two-party system:

One party usually has a majority in Parliament, because of the use of the First Past the Post electoral system, which has been conducive in creating the current two party system.

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For example, instant runoff voting is considered to have less frequent IIA failure than First Past the Post ( also known as Plurality Rule ).

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He is a founder member of the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body, is a Treasurer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Promotion of First Past the Post.

Past the chapel, the hall separates the First Court to the west and the Second Court to the east.

On 26 November 2010, Beckett was announced as the President of the NO2AV campaign, which campaigned to retain the First Past the Post ( FPTP ) electoral system at the 2011 United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum.

As the 1993 and 1997 federal elections involved vote-splitting between the Reform Party and the PC Party, the situation was repeated again between the Alliance and the PC Party, which in Canada's First Past the Post system allowed many Liberal candidates with a plurality of votes to win.

The Electoral Reform Society is a political pressure group based in the United Kingdom which advocates scrapping First Past the Post ( FPTP ) for all National and local elections.

The members of the House of Representatives were elected under the First Past the Post system, while those of the Council were appointed by the Governor.

These elections used both Single Transferable Vote and First Past the Post systems in 2007.

In 1988, Gary Knapp and a group of other Democrats were involved in a protest at parliament, criticising the First Past the Post electoral system that prevented their success.

As the star of a doctor skit, in a citizen's driven group, he prescribes a cure for some of the failings of the countries current Single Member Plurality ( SMP ) voting system ( sometimes called First Past the Post, FPTP ).

The use of STV was criticised strongly among the grassroots of the governing Ulster Unionist Party, who viewed it as " unbritish " ( apart from four university constituencies, the rest of the United Kingdom used First Past the Post ).

Rather than deal with questions as to why it faced declining popularity the party replaced STV by the less-proportional ( and so less helpful to minorities ) First Past the Post.

The report was welcomed by the Liberal Democrats and the SNP, although at the time the Liberal Democrats remained largely committed to STV, but preferred AV + to First Past the Post.

The UK referendum was held on May 5, 2011 and overwhelmingly rejected the proposed AV voting system in favour of retaining First Past the Post.

These were held in 1992 and 1993 and ultimately, the Mixed Member Proportional electoral system replaced the earlier First Past the Post.

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The first day cover involving Muralitharan bears an official seal captioned as " The highest wicket taker in Test cricket, MUTHIAH MURALIDARAN, First Day of Issue 03. 12. 2007, Camp Post Office, Asgiriya International Cricket Stadium, Kandy ".

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Journalist Andrew Cockburn reported in Britain's The First Post that Ekéus told him how former U. S. President Bill Clinton attempted to prevent Saddam Hussein's Iraq from being certified as free of weapons of mass destruction.

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The scenes of Air Force personnel aboard the Airborne Command Post receiving news of the incoming attack are footage of actual military personnel during a drill and had been aired several years earlier in a 1979 PBS documentary, First Strike.

In 1921, Katherine Forbes wrote a series of articles for the Washington Post describing the daily life of President Harding and the First Lady.

First, the Post came out with a front-page story about his activities in Montreal 13 years earlier — including his forgery conviction and his role at Zarossi's scandal-ridden bank.

* Taykwa Tagamou Nation ( formerly known as New Post First Nation )

In 1973 the British Post Office introduced a new type of card, PHQ Cards, popular with collectors, especially when they have the appropriate stamp affixed and a First day of issue postmark obtained.

In addition several Lakota live on Wood Mountain Indian Reserve often Wood Mountain First Nation northwest of Wood Mountain Post now a Saskatchewan historic site.

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