Preferential voting or preference voting (PV) may refer to different election systems or groups of election systems: Any electoral system that allows a...

Semi-optional preferential voting requires ranking more than one candidate but not necessary to rank all the candidates. Ranked-voting systems typically...

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...

voting. Preferential block voting can be seen as a multiple-winner version of instant-runoff. Under both block voting and preferential block voting,...

features including compulsory enrolment; compulsory voting; majority-preferential instant-runoff voting in single-member seats to elect the lower house,...

pairs of candidates. Most Condorcet methods employ a single round of preferential voting, in which each voter ranks the candidates from most (marked as number...

and reduce the spoiler effect. Examples include preferential voting systems, such as instant runoff voting, as well as the two-round system of runoffs and...

be accommodated. Each division elects one member using full-preferential voting. This voting system was put in place after the 1918 Swan by-election, which...

Instant-runoff voting (IRV; US: ranked-choice voting (RCV), AU: preferential voting, UK/NZ: alternative vote) is a single-winner ranked voting election system...

Representatives, currently consists of 150 members, each elected using full preferential voting from single-member electorates (also known as electoral divisions...

Plurality voting Instant-runoff voting Borda count Approval Voting Coombs' rule Bucklin voting (and the closely related median voting) Score Voting With plurality...

the chamber. In 1919, the voting system changed from first-past-the-post to preferential voting. The two-party-preferred vote (2PP) has been commonly used...

first-past-the-post and block voting system, on a state-by-state basis. This was replaced in 1919 by preferential block voting. Block voting tended to produce landslide...

Ranked-choice voting (RCV) can refer to one of several ranked voting methods used in some cities and states in the United States. The term is not strictly...

Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is the single-winner analogue of STV. It is also called single-winner ranked-choice voting and preferential voting. Its goal is...

A group voting ticket (GVT) is a shortcut for voters in a preferential voting system, where a voter can indicate support for a list of candidates instead...

fixed four-year terms in single-member constituencies using preferential voting. Voting is compulsory, and elections take place on the last Saturday...

the voting system rules. Sometimes, what appears as a donkey vote, may in fact a genuine representation of a voter's preferences. Preferential voting for...

Queensland. Elections are held every four years and are done by full preferential voting. The Assembly has 93 members, who have used the letters MP after...

by-election where the conservative vote split. Two months later, the Corangamite by-election held under preferential voting caused the initially leading ALP...

to vote by ballot. These motions generally cannot be used to specify alternative forms of voting such as cumulative voting or preferential voting. Those...

Approval voting is a single-winner rated voting system where voters can approve of all the candidates as they like instead of choosing one. The method...

Assembly (to a total of 93), the voting system changed from optional preferential voting to full-preferential voting, and unfixed three-year terms were...

total number of votes or as the absolute number of votes. In plurality systems (first past the post voting and plurality block voting), the ballots of...

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 preferential...

through the use of a multi-member district. San Francisco used preferential voting (Bucklin voting) in its 1917 city election.[citation needed] Eighty-five...

districts. The method of election is optional preferential voting, (also known as instant run-off voting). The voting system is the same as for the federal House...

same district), such a plurality block voting are also winner-take-all. In party block voting, voters can only vote for the list of candidates of a single...

electoral fraud. Preferential voting systems such as score voting and single transferable vote, and in some cases, instant-runoff voting, can reduce the...

after extracting a promise from the Nationalist Party to introduce preferential voting. Despite several attempts, Hall never re-entered parliament. He remained...