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...

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

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

The plurality-rule family of voting methods is a system of ranked voting rules based on, and closely-related to, first-preference plurality. These rules...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

residual votes) can be an academic indicator in evaluating the accuracy of a voting system when recording voter intent. While an overvote in a plurality voting...

ranked systems such as first preference plurality, ranked-choice voting (RCV), and the single transferable vote, first preferences for a candidate are...

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...

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

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