A _______ voting system is described as follows: "a single winner is chosen in a given constituency by having more votes than any other individual representative", and is often called First Past the Post, or Winner Takes All.

A. Plurality
B. Exhaustive
C. Most Rule
D. Two-Ballot

Ans: A. Plurality
The answer is A, Plurality. It is more or less synonymous with the Majoritarian system where the most number of votes needed to win is only 50% + 1.

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