Difference between "first past the post" and "proportional representation?"

yeah I have that exam tomorrow I haven't really revised but for most of it you should be fine since its just common sense. What exam board do you have?

edexcel

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I've got OCR good luck with your exam

So first past the post is when the person with the most votes wins the seat in the constituency, or sometimes when the party with the most seats forms a majority government (once they past a certain amount of seats)

So proportional representation is when a party gets a PERCENTAGE of the seats in a parliament according to the PERCENTAGE of votes it receives in total.

Say if a town called Fruit Salad held an election, there are 10 seats in the salad bowl.
FRUIT | PERCENTAGE
APPLE 10%
BANANA 20%
GRAPE 50%
PINEAPPLE 20%

This translates to
FRUIT | NO OF SEATS
APPLE 1
BANANA 2
GRAPE 5
PINEAPPLE 2