It is said that one of the advantages of winner-take-all systems is that it prevents the representation of extremist parties in parliament. However, this is true only if
a. there is a unimodal distribution of voter preferences.
b. there is a multimodal distribution of voter preferences.
c. voter preferences are equally distributed.
d. voters show strong preferences for the strongest parties.
e. voters are apathetic.
a. there is a unimodal distribution of voter preferences.
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