first-past-the-post - Definition from Longman English Dictionary Online

first-past-the-post
adjective

first-past-the-post [only before noun] British English

a first-past-the-post system of electing a politician, a government etc is one in which the person or party who gets the most votes wins:

Britain's first-past-the-post electoral system

first-past-the-post voting

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