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 ).

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

Past precedent is that such surnames are dropped from usage in adulthood, after which either title alone, or Mountbatten-Windsor is used when necessary.

Past the optimum point for extraction, various processes in the plant produce codeine, thebaine, and in some cases negligible amounts of hydromorphone, dihydromorphine, dihydrocodeine, tetrahydro-thebaine, and hydrocodone ( these compounds are rather synthesized from thebaine and oripavine ).

Past grievances are usually involved and can cause revanchism.

Past awardees are composers such as Stephen Sondheim and performers such as Carol Channing.

* Windshuttle, Keith ( 1996 ) The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering our Past.

( 2002 ) The Years of Silence are Past: My Father's Life with Bipolar Disorder.

A " Museum Show " which might be deceptively billed as " World's Greatest Freaks Past and Present ," is a sideshow in which the exhibits are usually not alive.

Often there are ribbons to signify rank, division, and department or specialized functions ; ribbons are also used to identify program participants, other noteworthy members ( for example " Past Worldcon Guest of Honor ", " Hugo Award Nominee ", etc.

Among the many films that have copied this formula are Under Siege ( terrorists take over a ship ), Snakes on a Plane ( poisonous snakes take over a passenger plane ), Speed, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and Derailed ( hostages are trapped on a train ), Sudden Death ( terrorists take over an Ice Hockey stadium ), Passenger 57, Executive Decision and Air Force One ( hostages are trapped on a plane ), Con Air ( criminals take over a transport plane ), and Half Past Dead and The Rock ( criminals or terrorists take over a prison ).

Past copies of the Navy List are also important sources of information for historians and genealogists.

Because there are so many applicants for this degree, Virtual Past Master is required to qualify them for it.

Law of Past Experience – The law of past experience implies that under some circumstances visual stimuli are categorized according to past experience.

In the novel Shadows of the Past by Michael Jan Friedman, the alien Lucifer is revealed to be alive, capturing Professor X and replacing him with an ionic energy duplicate possessing his memories and powers while nevertheless unquestionably loyal to Lucifer, while trapping Xavier in the Nameless Dimension with him ( The Nameless Dimension being depicted as a featureless realm filled with a thick liquid-like substance that Lucifer and Xavier can ' breathe ' as though they are still inhaling oxygen ).

Past mayors of Hamden are:

* Upper Main Street: Past downtown there are several businesses and several chain stores and restaurants, but it is mostly residential.

Past Little Falls Road, going north, there are still many businesses located along Route 23, including another CVS, a dog kennel, several hairdressers, a garden center, and an auto body shop.

Past population figures are: 1900, 2, 954 ; 1910, 4, 049 ; 1940, 5, 192.

Past events are presented from the view point of the main protagonist, the aging Stevens ; elements of the past are presented as fragments, apparently subconsciously censored by Stevens in order to present ( explicitly ) a description of past occurrences as he would have the reader understand them and ( implicitly ) in order to relay the fact that the information supplied is subjective.

* ACE Project: First Past The Post-Detailed explanation of first-past-the-post voting

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.

* First Past the Post

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

* First edition of The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shon Catti online at Books from the Past

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.

In First Past the Post assemblies, where the tendency to gravitate into two major parties or party groupings operates strongly, government and opposition roles can go to the two main groupings serially in alternation.

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.