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No, districts don't create the two-party system (or at least not alone); plurality (first-past-the-post) voting does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law


Aren't single-member district system and first-past-the-post the very same thing?


Not at all. You can have a single-member district system using a different voting system, most of which are better than plurality (first-past-the-post). And you can have a multi-member district system using the multi-winner equivalent of first-past-the-post (effectively first-N-past-the-post), rather than some better system.




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