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...

First-preference plurality (FPP) also known as single-member district plurality (SMDP)—often shortened simply to plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters...

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...

runoff, or two-round plurality (as originally termed in French), is a single winner voting method. It is sometimes called plurality-runoff, although this...

Instant-runoff voting (IRV) (US: ranked-choice voting or RCV, AU: preferential voting, UK: alternative vote) is a single-winner, multi-round elimination...

processes. Plurality voting is the most common ranked voting system, and has been in widespread use since the earliest democracies. As plurality voting has exhibited...

of plurality electoral systems. Under block voting (also known as multiple non-transferable vote or plurality-at-large), voters have as many votes as...

itself. DSV methods have been proposed for plurality voting, approval voting, and score voting. Tactical voting may occur in isolation or as part of an organized...

Runoff voting can refer to: Sequential-loser methods based on plurality voting: Two-round system, a voting system where only the top two candidates from...

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

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

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

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

voting systems require different levels of support to be elected. Plurality voting (First-past-the-post voting) elects the candidate with more votes than...

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...

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

popular vote went towards unpledged Federalist electors. Adams's only electoral vote came from a faithless elector. Jackson won a plurality of electoral...

Plurality (voting), when a candidate or proposition polls more votes than any other but does not receive more than half of all votes cast Plurality voting...

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...

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

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

Approval voting is a single-winner rated voting system in which voters mark all the candidates they support, instead of just choosing one. It is a form...

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

sizeable minority (or even a majority, in the case of plurality voting) of the electorate votes for candidates from other parties. This enables political...

drawing districts. The slogan "one man, one vote" has occasionally been misunderstood as requiring plurality voting; however, court cases in the United States...

voting and nonpartisan blanket primaries, which was enacted by Alaska Measure 2 from 2020, and return the state to partisan primaries and plurality voting...

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...