The voting system which encourages the most amount of tactical voting is Fptp, but even under this system the main parties do not collect the entirety of the vote, some goes to minority parties.
With the Alternative Vote it is likely that the winning party will require at least half of the votes cast and the outcome will (likely) be decided by minority party voters. They will no longer be excluded from the process. A party which is divisive (one which would never receive the support of some voters, being cultish) will suffer whereas a more consensual type of party will do well. AV is bad for parties which are cultish and divisive because they will not receive the lower preferences of voters who reject each of the main parties.
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