Bingo

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Bingo!

• Elections

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Draw a grid with six squares and select 6
keywords to go in the boxes
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Listen for youre a definition of your keyword to
be called out and cross off the appropriate box.
The first to complete all 6 boxes and call out
Bingo! wins
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Check you understand the meaning of the following
words

• Mandate
• Manifesto
• Opinion poll
• Second ballot
• Alternative vote
• List system
• Single transferable vote

• Simple plurality system
• Constituency
• Coalition government
• Safe seat
• Tactical voting
• Wasted vote
• Hybrid system

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• A document in which a political party sets out
  the policies it plans to pursue if it wins office

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• A candidate must achieve a quota of votes (the
  droop quota) in order to be elected.

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• An authoritative instruction or command

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• The first-past-the-post electoral system.

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• A mixture of majoritarian and proportional
  systems.

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• A constituency that normally elects an MP from
  the same political party at every election.

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• The geographical area which an MP represents

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• If no candidate achieves a majority of the votes
  cast, the electorate vote again some days later.
  Candidates who scored poorly on the first round
  are often eliminated.

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• A majoritarian system in which a candidate must
  win an overall majority of votes to be elected.
  Voting is preferential electors indicate their
  preferences among candidates by writing 1, 2, 3
  etc beside their different choices.

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• A survey of voters designed to discover their
  political attitudes and voting intentions

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• A vote for a losing candidate in a single-member
  constituency.

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• Voting for the candidate most likely to defeat
  the voters least favoured candidate

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• Governments made up of more than one party.

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• A PR system, in which votes are cast for a party
  list of candidates in large multi-member
  constituencies. There are both open and
  closed versions.