Tactical voting reverses bias in UK elections, study finds.
Plurality electoral systems like 'First-Past-The-Post' can lead to dominance by two main parties and encourage tactical voting. Voters often try to coordinate to prevent a disliked party from winning, but limited information makes this difficult. In the UK, tactical voting in the 1997 General Election helped balance out the bias towards the Conservatives caused by how votes are spread geographically.