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    Instant-runoff voting (IRV; US: ranked-choice voting (RCV), AU: preferential voting, UK/NZ: alternative vote) is a single-winner ranked voting election...
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    not strictly defined, but most often refers to instant-runoff voting (IRV) or single transferable vote (STV), the main difference being whether only one...
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    Maine use the Instant-runoff voting system, the ranked-choice voting (RCV) system, which unlike TRS does not require multiple rounds of voting.) The French...
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    voting systems vary dramatically in how preferences are tabulated and counted, which gives them very different properties. In instant-runoff voting (IRV)...
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  • Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is a ranked voting method used in single-winner elections. IRV is also known outside the US as the alternative vote (AV) or...
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  • Runoff voting can refer to: election methods where candidates are eliminated based on comparison of votes tallies: Two-round system, a voting system where...
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    in the United States have begun to adopt instant-runoff voting. In 2020 a referendum adopting approval voting in St. Louis passed with 70% support. In...
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    other ranked-vote systems – such as single transferable voting (STV), instant-runoff voting (IRV), Coombs' method, and Baldwin's method – allow for many...
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    Plurality voting Instant-runoff voting Borda count Approval Voting Coombs' rule Bucklin voting (and the closely related median voting) Score Voting With plurality...
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    severity of spoiler effects depends substantially on the voting method. Instant-runoff voting (IRV), the two-round system (TRS), and especially first-past-the-post...
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    a hybrid between (rated) score voting and (ranked) instant runoff voting. The first movement to implement STAR voting was centered in Oregon, with chapters...
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    vote (TCP). The TCP is the electoral penultimate result for an electoral division where preferences have been distributed using instant-runoff voting...
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  • literature) Instant-runoff voting and single transferable vote, referred to as "preferential voting" in Australia by way of conflation Bucklin voting, similarly...
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    later-no-harm (most methods) or monotonicity (such as instant-runoff voting) will encourage bullet voting or truncation in some situations. In systems that...
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    preferential voting systems, such as instant runoff voting, as well as the two-round system of runoffs and less tested methods such as approval voting and Condorcet...
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    Multiple transferable voting, sometimes called block preferential or block instant-runoff voting, is a winner-take-all system for electing several representatives...
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    no-show paradoxes is the use of instant-runoff (often called ranked-choice voting in the United States). In instant-runoff voting, a no-show paradox can occur...
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  • features including compulsory enrolment; compulsory voting; majority-preferential instant-runoff voting in single-member seats to elect the lower house,...
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  • one does exist, include instant-runoff voting (often called ranked-choice in the United States), First-past-the-post voting, and the two-round system...
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    winner-take-all elections using block plurality voting or block instant-runoff voting. Cumulative voting is commonly-used in corporate governance, where...
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    systems – such as first-past-the-post (FPTP), instant-runoff voting (IRV), and block voting – one party or voting bloc can take all seats in a district. The...
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    rules like the two-round system, plurality-with-primaries, and instant-runoff voting (IRV). In a center squeeze, the majority-preferred and socially...
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    is one. Not all single winner, ranked voting systems are Condorcet methods. For example, instant-runoff voting and the Borda count are not Condorcet methods...
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    "Estimating the Margin of Victory for Instant-runoff Voting". Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Electronic Voting Technology/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections...
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    are sometimes called best-is-worst paradoxes, and can occur in instant-runoff voting and minimax. Methods that satisfy reversal symmetry include the...
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    one vote. Alternatives to First-past-the-post voting include approval voting, two-round, proportional representation, and instant-runoff voting. With...
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    preferences (optional preferential voting) for Senate elections but full preferential voting is still used in the instant-runoff voting system used to elect members...
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    affect the results and cause vote splitting. For example, the center squeeze pathology that affects instant-runoff voting means that several similar (but...
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    is necessary to vote only once, instant-runoff voting has been used for large-scale elections in many places. Like instant-runoff voting, the exhaustive...
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    Condorcet methods and instant-runoff (or ranked-choice) voting. Rules that are not susceptible to it include all positional voting rules (such as first-preference...
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