receive a plurality) are elected. Under single-winner plurality voting, and in systems based on single-member districts, plurality voting is called single...

"receiving the most votes" and can therefore be confused with plurality. Plurality voting system Plurality-at-large voting Plurality opinion Voting system For...

Plurality block voting is a type of block voting method for multi-winner elections. Each voter may cast as many votes as the number of seats to be filled...

(FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite...

most votes in the first round move on to a second election (a second round of voting). The two-round system is in the family of plurality voting systems...

candidate with the fewest votes against wins. Anti-plurality voting is an example of a positional voting method. v t e Suppose that Tennessee is holding...

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

(in the 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...

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

Anti-plurality voting thus shows that the sincere favorite criterion is distinct from independence of irrelevant alternatives, and that ranked voting methods...

Positional voting is a ranked voting electoral system in which the options or candidates receive points based on their rank position on each ballot and...

Both plurality block voting and majority block voting allow voters to cast three votes (although they need not use all three) but restrict voting to one...

include any Condorcet method, instant-runoff voting, Bucklin voting, plurality voting, and approval voting. The mutual majority criterion is a generalized...

plurality voting state that their system is simpler than any other and more easily understood. All three systems are susceptible to tactical voting,...

Minimax fails the reversal symmetry criterion. This example shows that plurality voting violates the Reversal symmetry criterion. Assume three candidates A...

Sciences. Other systems exhibit an exit incentive. The vote splitting effect in plurality voting demonstrates this method's strong exit incentive: if multiple...

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...

marked are weighted or used as contingency votes (any system other than plurality or anti-plurality) Ranked voting methods, all election methods that involve...

methods include: plurality voting, supplementary voting, Sri Lankan contingent voting, approval voting, range voting, Bucklin voting and Minimax Condorcet...

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...

approximate proportionality much better than single-member plurality voting (SMP) and block voting. PR systems also are more resistant to gerrymandering and...

quadratic voting. Cumulative voting is semi-proportional, allowing for more representative government than winner-take-all elections using block plurality voting...

(first-preference plurality voting), and as a result is sometimes viewed skeptically by social choice theorists. However, its extreme simplicity and easy vote-counting...

Comparing range voting, Borda count, plurality voting, approval voting with two different absolute approval thresholds, Condorcet voting, and majority judgment...

bury strongest rivals at the lowest rankings. Plurality-at-large voting (Bloc-voting) allows up to N votes for elections with N winner elections. In this...

is the plurality-rule family of voting rules, which includes ranked choice voting (RCV), two-round plurality, and first-preference plurality. These rules...

refer to: Majority, a voting requirement of more than half of all votes cast Plurality (voting), a voting requirement of more votes cast for a proposition...

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...

of voting are held sequentially. Last-place candidates are eliminated one by one until a round of voting sees a candidate receive a majority of votes. This...

Kemeny–Young, Copeland's method, plurality, and the two-round system all fail the independence of clones criterion. Voting methods that limit the number...