Editing Single non-transferable vote (section)

==History==
Single Non-transferable Voting was first proposed in solid form by [[Louis Antoine de Saint-Just|Saint-Just]] in 1793, in a proposal to the [[French National Convention]]. He proposed having the whole country as one multi-seat district; but the idea was not adopted in France at that time.<ref>Hoag and Hallet, Proportional Representation, p. 163</ref>

Japan was the first country to adopt SNTV for election of government members a hundred years later than Saint-Just's proposal. In 1880s Japan adopted SNTV for provincial politicians and in 1900 for national politicians.<ref>Hoag and Hallet, Proportional Representation, p. 48</ref>