The term issue voting describes when voters cast their vote in elections based on political issues. In the context of an election, issues include "any...

Multi-issue voting is a setting in which several issues have to be decided by voting. Multi-issue voting raises several considerations, that are not relevant...

Different voting systems allow each voter to cast a different number of votes - only one (single voting as in First-past-the-post voting, Single non-transferable...

Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party. Big tent Identity politics Issue voting Protest vote Voting bloc "Full Day Hansard Transcript (Legislative Council, 10...

ideological or ideal-point) model of voting, also known as the Hotelling–Downs model, is a mathematical model of voting behavior. It describes voters and...

Storable voting is a multi-issue voting rule intended to promote minority rights relative to a simple majority system. Storable voting was the first multi-issue...

Quadratic voting (QV) is a voting system that encourages voters to express their true relative intensity of preference (utility) between multiple options...

voting takes a variety of forms and reflects numerous voter motivations, including political apathy. Where voting is compulsory, casting a blank vote...

The Approval Voting Party (AVP) is a single-issue American political party dedicated to implementing approval voting in the United States. In 2019, the...

Early voting, also called advance polling or pre-poll voting, is a convenience voting process by which voters in a public election can vote before a scheduled...

Compulsory voting, also called universal civic duty voting or mandatory voting, is the requirement that registered voters participate in an election....

Electronic voting is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or handle casting and counting ballots including voting time. Depending on the particular...

normally would, this is sometimes called a "conscience vote," "vote of conscience," or members "voting their consciences." For instance, an aide to Senate...

many voting rules creates incentives for dishonesty among voters. First-preference methods like first-past-the-post and ranked-choice runoff voting (RCV)...

Member of Parliament may actively abstain by voting both "yes" and "no". This is effectively the same as not voting at all, as the outcome will not be changed...

many votes they picked up in a particular area, or even a particular street. The planned introduction in the Republic of Ireland of electronic voting for...

ticket voting. In Ireland and Malta, surplus votes are transferred as whole votes (there may be some randomness) and neither allows ticket voting. In Hare–Clark...

poll Salami tactics Third rail (politics) Valence issue Issue Voting Seo, Jungkun. (2010). “Wedge-issue dynamics and party position shifts: Chinese exclusion...

Voting interest (or voting power) in business and accounting means the total number, or percent, of votes entitled to be cast on the issue at the time...

preferential voting), and compulsory voting has resulted - since they were introduced in 1983. This results in the near 95% usage of partisan group voting tickets...

Postal voting is voting in an election where ballot papers are distributed to electors (and typically returned) by post, in contrast to electors voting in...

Strategic or tactical voting is voting in consideration of possible ballots cast by other voters in order to maximize one's satisfaction with the election's...

Ranked voting is any voting system that uses voters' rankings of candidates to choose a single winner or multiple winners. More formally, a ranked vote system...

and voting. In this case "social issue" does not necessarily refer to an ill to be solved, but rather a topic to be discussed. Personal issues are those...

according to valence issues. The valence issue concept originates from Donald Stokes’s critical review of Anthony Downs’s theory of voting behavior which analogues...

A voting plan or voting rights plan is one of five main types of poison pills that a target firm can issue against hostile takeover attempts. These plans...

precinct feel about candidates and issues, and encourage people to vote. "Geographic Terms and Concepts - Voting Districts". US Census Bureau. Retrieved...

Class voting is the relationship between social class and voting behavior. The concept is central in political sociology, as political parties are seen...

variant of block voting. Under both cumulative voting and block voting, a voter casts multiple votes but in the case of cumulative voting, can lump them...

The paradox of voting, also called Downs' paradox, is that for a rational and egoistic voter (Homo economicus), the costs of voting will normally exceed...