nat-5-democracy-voting-systems

Definition: a way for the electorate to select candidates for political office.

• Referendum

• Voting

• Democracy

• Candidate

Definition: A government controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties.

• proportional representation

• political party

• minority government

• coalition government

Definition: a government in which the ruling party has more than half of the total number of seats in the legislature.

• Official Opposition

• Majority Government

• Political Party

• Caretaker Government

You vote for a political party, uses PR to count. What is this system called?

• First ballot paper

• Minority government

• Second ballot paper

• Candidate

• Proportional representation

A general vote by the electorate on a single question or issue is known as?

• Referendum

• Voting

• Initiative

• Recall

A system in which the winner of an election is the candidate who wins the greatest number of votes is called?

• First past the post

• Majority government

• Proportional representation

• Referendum

An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.

• electoral college

• plurality voting

• referendum

• proportional representation

A piece of paper on which a voter records their vote in an election

• ballot paper

• ballot box

• polling station

• ballot, election

A government in which the governing party has most seats but still less than half the total.

• Hung Parliament

• Minority Government

• Official Opposition

• Coalition Government

A hybrid system that has the benefits of both FPTP and proportional systems. Used in Scotland for devolved elections.

• Single Transferable Vote

• Supplementary Vote

• Additional Member System

• First Past The Post