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...

single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or first-preference, and the candidate with more first-preference votes than any other...

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 an election...

The Borda method or order of merit is a positional voting rule that gives each candidate a number of points equal to the number of candidates ranked below...

Score voting, sometimes called range voting, is an electoral system for single-seat elections. Voters give each candidate a numerical score, and the candidate...

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...

the Coombs' method and positional voting. Among the Cardinal electoral systems, the most well known of these is range voting, where any number of candidates...

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...

ranked-vote systems. Unlike the contingent vote, other ranked-vote systems – such as single transferable voting (STV), instant-runoff voting (IRV), Coombs'...

transferable vote (STV) or proportional-ranked choice voting (P-RCV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form...

much smaller compilation complexity. In positional voting systems like plurality or Borda, any set of votes can be summarized by recording the total...

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...

Round-robin, paired comparison, or tournament voting methods, are a set of ranked voting systems that choose winners by comparing every pair of candidates...

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...

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

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...

Limited voting (also known as partial block voting) is a voting system in which electors have fewer votes than there are positions available. The positions...

methods to compare voting systems: Metrics of voter satisfaction, either through simulation or survey. Adherence to logical criteria. Voting methods can be...

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

limit the term parallel voting to refer only to mixtures of first-past-the-post and proportional representation. Parallel voting can use other systems besides...

voters to study and vote on a public policy, while Deliberative opinion polling invites a random sample to deliberate together before voting on a policy. Andranik...

The winner of the Eurovision Song Contest is determined by a positional voting system. The most recent version of the system was implemented in the 2023...

the original on 2022-09-14. then the vote shall be performed using either a Condorcet voting system or a score voting system, as the participants shall decide...

voting, where voters can cast multiple votes, under SNTV each voter casts just one. SNTV retains many of the problems of first-past-the-post voting (first-preference...

Proxy voting is a form of voting whereby a member of a decision-making body may delegate their voting power to a representative, to enable a vote in absence...

Germany, citizens gave only one vote, so that voting for a representative automatically meant also voting for the representative's party, which is still...

under FIFA's jurisdiction. In a system based on positional voting, each voter was allotted three votes, worth five points, three points and one point,...

derivative of the log-likelihood function with respect to the parameter In positional voting, a function mapping the rank of a candidate to the number of points...

instant-runoff voting in this example would result in Knoxville winning even though more people preferred Nashville over Knoxville. Of the formal voting criteria...

where the voting system allows for the selection of multiple winners at once. Block voting falls under the multiple non-transferable vote category, a...