Progressive Politics

Lots of people entering is good as a measure of democratic engagement, but lots of people in a race distorts the result of a FPTP race away from something that could reliably be declared to represent the majority. We won't know that the person with a plurality won because they best represent of the desires of the voters or simply because an opposing ideology had more candidates and split their vote. A person with less than a third of the vote being the winner is not good democracy.