However, the Liberal Democrats received 9.5% of the vote and returned 4 MPs. Tactical voting: It is argued that FPTP encourages tactical voting (or people not bothering to vote) as they think ...

Nigel Farage, the Reform UK Party leader and MP for Clacton, said the first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system was unfair because his party took 14.3 per cent of the vote — making it the ...