The vote linkage or (multi-tier) vote transfer system is type of compensatory mixed electoral system, where votes may be transferred across multiple tiers...

compensation: vote linkage and seat linkage. Compensation exists in many ranked voting systems such as instant-runoff voting and single transferable voting, where...

common ways compensation occurs are seat linkage compensation (or top-up) and vote linkage compensation (or vote transfer). Like a non-compensatory mixed...

proportional to parties' vote share by taking into account the number of seats won by parties in the single-member constituencies. Vote linkage mixed systems are...

Voting refers to the process of choosing officials or policies by casting a ballot, a document used by people to formally express their preferences. Republics...

Ranked voting is any voting system that uses voters' rankings of candidates to choose a single winner or multiple winners. More formally, a ranked system...

many factors including the vote transfer rules (which votes are recounted as party list votes), whether there is a seat linkage, and other parameters (e...

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

non-transferable vote or SNTV is an electoral system used to elect multiple winners. It is a semi-proportional variant of first-past-the-post voting, applied...

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 seat linkage mechanism and use a vote linkage one instead, in which case most likely more compensatory seats would be needed. A negative vote transfer...

plurality (SMDP)—often shortened simply to plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters typically mark one candidate as their favorite, and the candidate...

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

some circumstances), and all three rules are affected by center-squeeze and vote splitting. Majority-rule (or Condorcet) methods are only rarely affected...

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 mixed ballot transferable vote (MBTV) refers to a type of vote linkage-based mixed-member electoral system where a group of members are elected on...

Cumulative voting (sometimes called the single divisible vote) is a election system where a voter casts multiple votes but can lump votes on a specific...

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

The contingent vote is an electoral system used to elect a single representative in which a candidate requires a majority of votes to win. It is a form...

South Korea and Mexico. In South Korea, the hybrid of parallel voting and seat linkage compensation, being between the MMP and MMM type of representation...

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...

An electoral system (or voting system) is a set of rules that determine how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined...

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...

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...

proportional formula. Alternatively, the MMP (seat linkage) algorithm can be used with a mixed single vote to "top-up" to a proportional result. With MSV...

Doge of Venice was determined through a complex process of nomination, voting and sortition. Lot was used in the Venetian system only in order to select...

apportionment problems such as biproportional apportionments or partial vote linkage. This is in part responsible for the extreme complexity of administering...

Plurality voting refers to electoral systems in which the candidates in an electoral district who poll more than any other (that is, receive a plurality)...