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Plurality voting is the most common voting system, and has been in widespread use since the earliest democracies.As plurality voting has exhibited weaknesses from its start, especially as soon as a third party joins the race, some individuals turned to transferable votes (facilitated by contingent ranked ballots) to reduce the incidence of wasted votes and unrepresentative election results.
Ranked-choice ballots enable long-distance absentee votes to count in the runoff election if their first choice does not make the runoff. Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, [155] Georgia, and South Carolina all use ranked-choice ballots for overseas and military voters in federal elections that might go to a runoff.
Depending on how "preferential" is defined, the term would include all voting systems, apply to any system that uses ranked ballots (thus both IRV and STV), or would exclude IRV (IRV fails positive responsiveness because ballot markings are not interpreted as "preferences" in the traditional sense. Under IRV (and STV), secondary preferences are ...
Ranked-choice voting (RCV), preferential voting (PV), or the alternative vote (AV), is a multi-round elimination rule based on first-past-the-post.In academic contexts, the system is generally called instant-runoff voting (IRV) to avoid conflating it with other methods of ranked voting in general.
The Kemeny–Young method is an electoral system that uses ranked ballots and pairwise comparison counts to identify the most popular choices in an election. It is a Condorcet method because if there is a Condorcet winner, it will always be ranked as the most popular choice.
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 the one with the most points overall wins. [1] The lower-ranked preference in any adjacent pair is generally of less value than the higher-ranked one.
Ranked-choice voting is a system where voters rank candidates on their ballots. This means you vote for your first-choice candidate as well as your second, third, fourth choice and so on.
STV ballot papers from the 2011 Irish general election. The single transferable vote (STV) or proportional-ranked choice voting (P-RCV) [a] is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form of a ranked ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vote may be transferred according to ...