Back to the full dot-point answer
WalesPoliticsQuick questions
Living and Participating in a Democracy (AS Unit 2)
Quick questions on Elections and electoral systems in the UK and Wales - WJEC A-Level Government and Politics
4short Q&A pairs drawn directly from our worked dot-point answer. For full context and worked exam questions, read the parent dot-point page.
What are two systems, two effects?Show answer
Wales itself illustrates the trade-off at the heart of this topic. Senedd elections use the additional member system, so a voter casts a constituency vote and a regional list vote, and the list seats top up the result to make it more proportional, helping smaller parties win representation they would struggle to gain under first-past-the-post. Westminster elections in the same Welsh seats use first-past-the-post, which tends to concentrate seats in the largest parties.
What is q1?Show answer
What does first-past-the-post require a winning candidate to obtain? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Which electoral system is used to elect the Senedd? [1 mark]
What is q3?Show answer
To what extent should the UK replace first-past-the-post with a proportional system? [25 marks]
Have a question we have not covered?
This dot-point answer is short enough that we have not extracted many short questions yet. Read the full dot-point answer or ask Mo, our study assistant, in the chat for follow ups.