first-past-the-postˌfirst-past-the-ˈpost adjective [only before noun] British English (abbreviation FPTP)Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Under his scheme they would be elected by something close to Britain's first-past-the-post system.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY►first-past-the-post voting
a first-past-the-post system of electing a politician, a government etc is one in which the person or party who gets the most votes wins: Britain’s first-past-the-post electoral systemfirst-past-the-post voting