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Rated, evaluative, graded, or cardinal voting rules are a class of voting methods that allow voters to state how strongly they support a candidate, by...

median voting rules are a class of graded voting rules where the candidate with the highest median rating is elected. The various highest median rules differ...

Phragmén's voting rules are rules for multiwinner voting. They allow voters to vote for individual candidates rather than parties, but still guarantee...

informal organisations. These rules govern all aspects of the voting process: when elections occur, who is allowed to vote, who can stand as a candidate...

These rules are often used in elections with more than two candidates. Such rules elect the candidate with the most votes after applying some voting procedure...

the case of a cycle—Condorcet methods differ on which other criteria they satisfy. The procedure given in Robert's Rules of Order for voting on motions...

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...

Preliminary version in Voting Matters, 17:9-19, 2003. Douglas R. Woodall, Properties of Preferential Election Rules, Voting Matters, issue 3, pages 8–15...

plurality rule and where each voter casts just one vote in a multi-seat district is known as single non-transferable voting. Plurality voting is widely...

voting scheme is homogeneous. This approach allows the sampling comparison over arbitrary periods consistent with the unbiased assumption of voting patterns...

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...

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

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

Weighted voting refers to voting rules that grant some voters a greater influence than others (which contrasts with rules that assign every voter an equal...

of Preferential Election Rules". Voting Matters (3). Henry R. Droop. "On Methods of Electing Representatives," Journal of the Statistical Society of London...

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...

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

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...

results of an election simply by participating. Voting rules that are not affected by spoilers are said to be spoilerproof. The frequency and severity of spoiler...

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

thought of as a variant of block voting. Under both cumulative voting and block voting, a voter casts multiple votes but in the case of cumulative voting, can...

is a voting system criterion applicable to voting rules over ordinal preferences required that if only one candidate is ranked first by over 50% of voters...

induction winner in Stackelberg voting games.[clarification needed] Let r be a voting rule: a function that takes as input a list of n ranked ballots, representing...

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

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

single-member plurality voting (SMP) and block voting. PR systems also are more resistant to gerrymandering and other forms of manipulation. Some PR systems...

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...

CPO-STV, or the Comparison of Pairs of Outcomes by the Single Transferable Vote, is a ranked voting system designed to achieve proportional representation...