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In its current incarnations, it is not just pure FPTP, but "mixed" with other systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting#Countries_using_
by perching_aix 1y ago
In its current incarnations, it is not just pure FPTP, but "mixed" with other systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting#Countries_using_FPP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting#Cou...
This list includes Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, etc...
Not that only FPTP is terrible either - it is just what people evoke when they say "well xy people voted for this, right?". In more fair systems, the voted person or party may not even have been their first or second choice, so that on its own violates this notion again too, just differently.