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The spare vote [8] is a version of single transferable voting applied to the ranking of parties, first proposed for elections in Germany in 2013. [9] The spare vote system includes the step of transferring the votes of eliminated choices to the next-indicated choice, but it does not transfer surplus votes.
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. Some electoral systems elect a single winner (single candidate or option), while others elect multiple winners, such as members of parliament or boards of directors.
147 elected in single or multi-member constituencies, using a runoff system. 13 elected by overseas Malians. 160 90,732 Malta: Parliament (Il-Parlament) President of Malta: President-in-Parliament 5 Appointed by the House of Representatives N/A N/A House of Representatives (Kamra tad-Deputati) Unicameral 5 Single transferable vote: 69 5,950
Historically, the single transferable vote (STV) electoral system has seen a series of relatively modest periods of usage and disusage throughout the world; however, today it is seeing increasing popularity and proposed implementation as a method of proportional representation and a goal of electoral reform. STV has been used in many different ...
The two common ways compensation occurs are seat linkage compensation (or top-up) and vote linkage compensation (or vote transfer). [3] Like a non-compensatory mixed system, a compensatory mixed system may be based on the mixed single vote (voters vote for a local candidate and that vote is used to set the party share of the popular vote for the party that the candidate belongs to) or it may ...
Vote allocation or vote management is a type of strategic voting most common in countries with semi-proportional representation systems like the single non-transferable vote [1] as well as malapportioned forms of proportional representation based on small districts (such as those often used together with the single transferable vote).
Some, but not all single transferable vote systems require a preference to be expressed for every candidate, or for the voter to express at least a minimum number of preferences. Others allow a voter just to mark one preference if that is the voter's desire. The vote will be used to elect just one candidate at the most, in the end.