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Instant-runoff (preferential) voting method. TPP/TCP vote is calculated when two candidates remain. In Australian politics, the two-party-preferred vote (TPP or 2PP), commonly referred to as simply preferences, is the result of an election or opinion poll after preferences have been distributed to the two candidates with the highest number of votes who, in some cases, can be independents.
Map based on last Senate election in each state as of 2024. Starting with the 2000 United States presidential election, the terms "red state" and "blue state" have referred to US states whose voters vote predominantly for one party—the Republican Party in red states and the Democratic Party in blue states—in presidential and other statewide elections.
Electoral fusion is also known as fusion voting, cross endorsement, multiple party nomination, multi-party nomination, plural nomination, and ballot freedom. [3] [4] Electoral fusion was once widespread in the U.S. and legal in every state. However, as of 2024, it remains legal and common only in New York and Connecticut. [5] [6] [7]
At a minimum, these reforms should include the adoption of ranked-choice voting, proportional representation in a multi-party system, and the elimination of closed primaries.
Republicans in Pennsylvania and Michigan, two key swing states, are charting different paths for the 2024 election after their losses in the 2022 midterms.
As of November 2024, ranked choice voting is banned in eleven states. [174] On February 28, 2022, Tennessee became the first state to ban ranked choice voting state-wide. The sponsor of the bill, then Republican State Senator Brian Kelsey, said the ban was "a win for protecting election integrity and ensuring voter clarity at the ballot box."
The pandemic-era 2020 election had the highest ever early vote totals, at more than 101 million, or 63% of all votes cast. But beside 2020, the share of early votes has remained steady since 2012 ...
The two-round system (TRS or 2RS), also called ballotage, top-two runoff, or two-round plurality (as originally termed in French [1]), is a single winner voting method. It is sometimes called plurality-runoff , [ 2 ] although this term can also be used for other, closely-related systems such as instant-runoff (or ranked-choice) voting or the ...