A winner-take-all (or winner-takes-all) electoral system is one where a voting bloc can win all seats in a legislature or electoral district, denying...
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market is considered winner-take-all. For example, most lottery games are 100% winner-take-all systems because one person takes the entire reward and...
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Winner-take-all is a computational principle applied in computational models of neural networks by which neurons compete with each other for activation...
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Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class is a 2010 book by political scientists Jacob S....
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agents. Winner-take-all systems work by connecting modules (task-designated areas) in such a way that when one action is performed it stops all other actions...
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systems are: single-winner vs. multi-winner systems and proportional representation vs. winner-take-all systems vs. mixed systems. In all cases, where only...
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refer to one of two kinds of party systems. Both result from Duverger's law, which demonstrates that "winner-take-all" or "first-past-the-post" elections...
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2024 United States presidential election in Nebraska (section Proposal to change to electoral vote system)
winner-take-all, and I am not supporting winner-take-all." Governor Jim Pillen said he would call a special session to adopt a winner-take-all system...
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Duverger's law (category All articles with unsourced statements)
victories, where one party wins all seats, for example 2022 Barbadian general election. Some minor parties in winner-take-all systems have managed to translate...
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Red states and blue states (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
and only appear blue or red on the electoral map because of the winner-take-all system used by most states in the Electoral College. However, the perception...
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Parallel voting (redirect from Russian System)
compensatory (corrective) and conditional systems. Most often, parallel voting involves combining a winner-take-all system with party-list proportional representation...
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attempted to switch the state back to the Winner-take-all system without success. Proposals to institute winner-take-all passed the Nebraska Legislature in 1995...
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system (yes/no): A systems composed of multiple other electoral systems, usually containing at least one proportional and one winner-take all system....
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Swing state (category All Wikipedia articles in need of updating)
in the Electoral College system, every state, with the exceptions of Maine and Nebraska, has adopted a winner-take-all system, where the candidate who...
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United States Electoral College (category All articles with dead external links)
that it is not representative of the popular will of the nation. Winner-take-all systems, especially with representation not proportional to population...
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Delegate (American politics) (category All articles needing additional references)
candidate varies from state to state. Many states have been using a winner-take-all system, where popular vote determines the winning candidate for that state...
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most cantons, the Council of States is elected using the winner-take-all system, as are almost all executive bodies. Look up Listenkandidat in Wiktionary...
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Block approval voting (category Multi-winner electoral systems)
(also called unlimited voting, in reference to limited voting) is a winner-take-all system where each voter either approves or disapproves of each candidate...
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Single transferable vote (redirect from Hare system)
different from other commonly used candidate-based systems. In winner-take-all or plurality systems – such as first-past-the-post (FPTP), instant-runoff...
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Republican efforts to restrict voting following the 2020 United States presidential election (category All articles with vague or ambiguous time)
presidential candidate. Under the winner-take-all system common to nearly all other states, this would give the Republican candidate all five of the state's electoral...
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First-past-the-post voting (redirect from First-past-the-post election system)
majority of votes may play no part in determining the outcome. This winner-takes-all system may be one of the reasons why "voter participation tends to be...
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2008 United States presidential election in Maine (category All articles with dead external links)
electoral votes via a winner-take-all system; rather, two electoral votes are allocated to the statewide winner and one for the winner in each individual...
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Article Two of the United States Constitution (redirect from Take Care Clause)
indirect popular vote, since the 1820s. Most states use a "winner-take-all" system in which all the state's electors are awarded to the candidate gaining...
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this winner-takes-all system contrasts with other, more ambiguous systems where heirs are never told what, how much, or if they will inherit at all. Historically...
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College, all of a state's votes go to the winning presidential candidate for that state, no matter how close the margin, in a winner-take-all system. Third-party...
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elections. Multi-party systems tend to be more common in countries using proportional representation compared to those using winner-take-all elections, a result...
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National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
however, believe that since most states award electoral votes on a winner-takes-all system (the "unit rule"), the potential of populous states to shift greater...
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Thirty-one of the thirty-two Irish counties take part. Kilkenny do not compete but take part in the All-Ireland Junior Championship, while London and...
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allowed minority parties to participate, the constitution mandated a winner-take-all system that effectively denied the opposition a voice in governance. Tsiranana's...
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Wasted vote (category All articles with incomplete citations)
In electoral systems, a wasted vote is any vote cast that is not "used" to elect a winner, and so is not represented in the outcome. However, the term...
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