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

squares must add up to a fixed value, the method becomes quadratic voting. Cumulative voting is semi-proportional, allowing for more representative government...

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...

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

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...

from proportionality Plurality-at-large voting Approval voting Single non-transferable vote Single transferable vote Prior to the 2020 election, the US states...

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

other rated voting methods have a spoiler effect no matter what scales the voters use: Quadratic voting is unusual in that it is a cardinal voting system that...

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

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...

Spoiler effect Independence of irrelevant alternatives Nakamura number Quadratic voting Rock paper scissors Smith set Marquis de Condorcet (1785). Essai sur...

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...

Weighted voting are voting rules that grant some voters a greater influence than others (which contrasts with rules that assign every voter an equal vote). Examples...

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...

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...

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...

Bucklin voting is a class of voting methods that can be used for single-member and multi-member districts. As in highest median rules like the majority...

single transferable vote (STV), also called ranked choice voting, is a ranked system: voters rank candidates in order of preference. Voting districts usually...

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

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

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...

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...

each voter is to pile all their votes into the one contest they deem most important. This contrasts with quadratic voting, which is slightly more complex...

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...

Each voter votes directly for one or more individual candidates. These systems include Plurality block voting and single non-transferable voting, adaptations...

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

optimal provision of public goods, using a version of quadratic voting. As of August 2022, quadratic funding had been used to allocate over $20 million to...

runoff voting (SRV). The runoff step was introduced in an attempt to reduce strategic incentives in ordinary score voting, such as bullet voting and tactical...

The alternative vote plus (AV+), or alternative vote top-up, is a semi-proportional voting system. AV+ was devised by the 1998 Jenkins Commission which...

elected. Under single-winner plurality voting, and in systems based on single-member districts, plurality voting is called single member [district] plurality...