Consider the table given below providing some details of the results of the election to the Karnataka State Legislature Assembly held in December, 1994 :

Political Party Popular Votes                                                      Percentage. of Seats obtained                                                                   Number of secured                               
Janta Dal 36 116
Congress 31 35
BJP 20.4 40

In terms of electoral analysis, the voter-seat distortion is to be explained as the result of the adoption of the: 

(a) hare system 

(b) cumulative vote system 

(c) first-past-the post system 

(d) plural vote system

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(c) Under First Past The Post (FPTP) voting takes place in constituencies that elect a single MP. Voters put a cross in a box next to their favoured candidate and the candidate with the most votes in the constituency wins. All other votes count for nothing.

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