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PROF HAMID GHANY

Res­i­dent Po­lit­i­cal Sci­en­tist

Vote split­ting and man­u­fac­tured ma­jori­ties have long in­flu­enced the po­lit­i­cal land­scape of T&T, shap­ing elec­tion out­comes in ways that of­ten do not re­flect the pop­u­lar vote. Un­der the first-past-the-post sys­tem, gov­ern­ments have fre­quent­ly been formed with a ma­jor­i­ty of seats while se­cur­ing less than 50 per cent of the votes cast.