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

vote. Among the proportional voting systems that use rating are Thiele's voting rules and Phragmen's voting rule. A special case of Thiele's voting rules...

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

proportional approval voting. It is a special case of Thiele's voting rules, proposed by Danish statistician Thorvald N. Thiele in the early 1900s. It...

proportional cardinal rules, often called approval-based committee rules. Phragmen's method Proportional approval voting (Thiele's method) Method of equal...

votes. As well, each voter may cast single or multiple votes. Already in 1895, Thiele suggested a family of weight-based rules called Thiele's voting...

decided by majority rule. It is one of the basic rules of parliamentary procedure, as described in handbooks like Robert's Rules of Order. One alternative...

PAV is a special case of Thiele's voting rule, proposed by Thorvald N. Thiele. It was used in combination with ranked voting in the Swedish elections...

also known as the beatpath method, is a single winner ranked-choice voting rule developed by Markus Schulze. The Schulze method is a Condorcet completion...

ways to compare voting systems: Metrics of voter satisfaction, either through simulation or survey. Adherence to logical criteria. Voting methods can be...

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

rules include Thiele's method or Phragmen's rules. Motions relating to methods of voting and the polls are incidental motions used to obtain a vote on...

of spoiler effects depends substantially on the voting method. Instant-runoff or ranked-choice voting (RCV), the two-round system (TRS), and especially...

4.5  The block approval voting (AV) rule maximizes individual excellence. Lackner and Skowron show that Thiele's voting rules can be used to interpolate...

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...

rules to multiwinner voting). Among these rules, Thiele's rules are the only ones satisfying IIA, and dissatisfaction-counting-rules are the only ones satisfying...

social choice theory, Condorcet's voting paradox is a fundamental discovery by the Marquis de Condorcet that majority rule is inherently self-contradictory...

single transferable vote (STV), also called ranked choice voting, is a ranked system: voters rank candidates in order of preference. Voting districts usually...

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...

ranked-choice) voting or the exhaustive ballot (which typically produce similar results). It falls under the class of plurality-based voting rules, together...

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

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...

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...

parallel voting in 1995) Politics portal Cube rule Deviation from proportionality Plurality-at-large voting Approval voting Single non-transferable vote Single...

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

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 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...

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...

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...

majoritarian representation and parallel voting refer to two different things. Parallel voting refers to a rule for computing each party's representation...