... they do. This essay will try to answer questions of what really makes people vote the way they do and how the current electoral law affects this. Other voting systems and thus electoral laws will then be examined to establish whether the law really affects voting behaviour. Firstly, lets put the electoral system into perspective. Different electoral systems have different democratic qualities offering varying degrees of choice, social representation and representation, stable government, whilst others provide easy voter comprehension of the system. The British electoral system is a mixture of all these although the current system sacrifices some proportionality and representation in an attempt to produce a stable government easily comprehensible for the voter. The British electoral system is known as a majoritarian system whereby the candidate with the most votes wins the election and thus a seat and the party with the most seats is elected to the legislature. ...

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