In a democracy it is the opinion of the voters which matters more than that of the politicians. So in a sense the truth (at least politically) is defined by the people and not the state. The state is subordinate to the people in a democracy.
Since the people (the voters) are not the state and have different interests to the state then they are anarchists in this context. And if we consider first-past-the-post to be right wing then anarchy is left wing because what is good for democracy is good for the people. And if the people define the truth then anarchy and the truth are both left wing (this all assumes fptp is right wing).
There is no contradiction in the left wing being interested in the preservation of peace and property rights. The right do not have a political monopoly on being opposed to crime. It is also true that we can think of anti-democrats (including fptp-supporters) as criminals since they seek to reject the will of the people. And then it is the democrats who act as the agents of peace and the law when they seek to replace fptp with proportional representation. To oppose the introduction of pr is an act of statist crime against the democratic people. It is an act perpetrated by the state in defence against them becoming more accountable to the people. The state seeks to maintain the (criminal) insanity of an undemocratic system which is why it argues against pr. The introduction of pr would be an end to the crime of fptp.
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