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This exact situation played out during the last coalition, where the compromise was a vote on it (because changing the method of voting without a clear mandate is unlikely to be popular) and once again everyone voted to keep FPTP, which was painful to watch.
The Lib Dems basically gave away their negotiating power in the coalition agreement for nothing but an expensive failed attempt to change from FPTP.
Note: "exact" isn't accurate as it would be different parties but it would still be an incumbent relic of two party politics vs a less well funded party.
Expensive is an understatement. They threw away their promise on student fees in the process of this. Causing their vote share to collapse at the next election. Meaning that Cameron's plan to offer an EU referendum in the manifesto, but negotiate it away during coalition talks wasn't applicable. Meaning he had to actually offer the Brexit referendum...