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...

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

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

Plurality block voting, also called as multiple non-transferable vote, and block plurality voting, is a type of block voting method for multi-winner elections...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

single-shot, or plump voting is when a voter supports only a single candidate, typically to show strong support for a single favorite. Every voting method that...

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...

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

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...