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

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 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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

single-winner voting system proposed in 2010 by Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki. It is a kind of highest median rule, a cardinal voting system that elects...

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...

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

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...

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...

the majority rule is the plurality-rule family of voting rules, which includes ranked choice voting (RCV), two-round plurality, and first-preference plurality...