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id="toc-Multi-winner-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Issues" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Issues"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Issues</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Issues-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Issues subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Issues-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-In_all_plurality_systems" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#In_all_plurality_systems"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>In all plurality systems</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-In_all_plurality_systems-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Wasted_votes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Wasted_votes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1.1</span> <span>Wasted votes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Wasted_votes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Tactical_voting" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tactical_voting"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1.2</span> <span>Tactical voting</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tactical_voting-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Spoiler_effect" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Spoiler_effect"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1.3</span> <span>Spoiler effect</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Spoiler_effect-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Manipulation_charges" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Manipulation_charges"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1.4</span> <span>Manipulation charges</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Manipulation_charges-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Gerrymandering" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gerrymandering"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1.5</span> <span>Gerrymandering</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gerrymandering-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-In_some_plurality_systems" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#In_some_plurality_systems"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>In some plurality systems</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-In_some_plurality_systems-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Fewer_political_parties" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a 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vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Issues_specific_to_particular_countries"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Issues specific to particular countries</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Issues_specific_to_particular_countries-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Solomon_Islands" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Solomon_Islands"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3.1</span> <span>Solomon Islands</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Solomon_Islands-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Arguments_for_plurality" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Arguments_for_plurality"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>Arguments for plurality</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Arguments_for_plurality-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Simplicity_and_familiarity" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Simplicity_and_familiarity"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4.1</span> <span>Simplicity and familiarity</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Simplicity_and_familiarity-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ease_of_balloting" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ease_of_balloting"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4.2</span> <span>Ease of balloting</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ease_of_balloting-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ease_of_counting" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ease_of_counting"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4.3</span> <span>Ease of counting</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ease_of_counting-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> 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title="First-past-the-post voting">First preference plurality (FPP)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Two-round_system" title="Two-round system">Two-round</a> (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title=""><a href="/wiki/American_English" title="American English">US</a>:</abbr> <a href="/wiki/Nonpartisan_primary" title="Nonpartisan primary">Jungle primary</a>) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Partisan_primary" class="mw-redirect" title="Partisan primary">Partisan primary</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting" title="Instant-runoff voting">Instant-runoff</a> <ul><li><abbr style="font-size:85%" title=""><a href="/wiki/British_English" title="British English">UK</a>:</abbr> Alternative vote (AV)</li> <li><abbr style="font-size:85%" title=""><a href="/wiki/American_English" title="American English">US</a>:</abbr> Ranked-choice (RCV)</li></ul></li></ul> <hr /> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Condorcet_method" title="Condorcet method">Condorcet methods</a></b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tideman_alternative_method" title="Tideman alternative method">Condorcet-IRV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Round-robin_voting" title="Round-robin voting">Round-robin voting</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Minimax_Condorcet_method" title="Minimax Condorcet method">Minimax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schulze_method" title="Schulze method">Schulze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranked_pairs" title="Ranked pairs">Ranked pairs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maximal_lottery" class="mw-redirect" title="Maximal lottery">Maximal lottery</a></li></ul></li></ul> <hr /> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Positional_voting" title="Positional voting">Positional voting</a></b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First-preference_plurality" class="mw-redirect" title="First-preference plurality">Plurality</a> (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title=""><a href="/wiki/Sequential_elimination_method" title="Sequential elimination method">el.</a></abbr> <a href="/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting" title="Instant-runoff voting">IRV</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borda_count" title="Borda count">Borda count</a> (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title=""><a href="/wiki/Sequential_elimination_method" title="Sequential elimination method">el.</a></abbr> <a href="/wiki/Baldwin%27s_method" class="mw-redirect" title="Baldwin's method">Baldwin</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-plurality_voting" title="Anti-plurality voting">Antiplurality</a> (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title=""><a href="/wiki/Sequential_elimination_method" title="Sequential elimination method">el.</a></abbr> <a href="/wiki/Coombs_method" class="mw-redirect" title="Coombs method">Coombs</a>)</li></ul> <hr /> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Rated_voting" title="Rated voting">Cardinal voting</a></b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Score_voting" title="Score voting">Score voting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Approval_voting" title="Approval voting">Approval voting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highest_median_voting_rules" title="Highest median voting rules">Majority judgment</a></li> <li><a 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method">Largest remainders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_remnant" title="National remnant">National remnant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biproportional_apportionment" title="Biproportional apportionment">Biproportional</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_list" title="Electoral list">List type</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Closed_list" title="Closed list">Closed list</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Open_list" title="Open list">Open list</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panachage" title="Panachage">Panachage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justified_representation" title="Justified representation">List-free PR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Localized_list" title="Localized list">Localized list</a></li></ul></li></ul> <hr /> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Electoral_quota" title="Electoral quota">Quota-remainder methods</a></b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Single_transferable_vote" title="Single transferable vote">Hare STV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schulze_STV" title="Schulze STV">Schulze 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href="/wiki/Interactive_representation" title="Interactive representation">Interactive representation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liquid_democracy" title="Liquid democracy">Liquid democracy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fractional_approval_voting" title="Fractional approval voting">Fractional approval voting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maximal_lottery" class="mw-redirect" title="Maximal lottery">Maximal lottery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Random_ballot" title="Random ballot">Random ballot</a></li></ul> <hr /> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Semi-proportional_representation" title="Semi-proportional representation">Semi-proportional representation</a></b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cumulative_voting" title="Cumulative voting">Cumulative</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Single_non-transferable_vote" title="Single non-transferable vote">SNTV</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Limited_voting" title="Limited voting">Limited voting</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td 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title="Parallel voting">Parallel (superposition)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coexistence_(electoral_systems)" title="Coexistence (electoral systems)">Coexistence</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Conditional_electoral_system&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conditional electoral system (page does not exist)">Conditional</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Majority_bonus_system" title="Majority bonus system">Fusion (majority bonus)</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Compensation_(electoral_systems)" title="Compensation (electoral systems)">Compensatory</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seat_linkage_mixed_system&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Seat linkage mixed system (page does not exist)">Seat linkage system</a> <ul><li><abbr style="font-size:85%" title=""><a href="/wiki/British_English" title="British English">UK</a>:</abbr> <a href="/wiki/Additional_member_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Additional member system">'AMS'</a></li> <li><abbr style="font-size:85%" title=""><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_English" title="New Zealand English">NZ</a>:</abbr> <a href="/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional" class="mw-redirect" title="Mixed-member proportional">'MMP'</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vote_linkage_mixed_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Vote linkage mixed system">Vote linkage system</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scorporo" title="Scorporo">Negative vote transfer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mixed_ballot_transferable_vote" title="Mixed ballot transferable vote">Mixed ballot</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mixed_electoral_system" title="Mixed electoral system">Supermixed systems</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dual-member_proportional_representation" class="mw-redirect" title="Dual-member proportional representation">Dual-member proportional</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rural%E2%80%93urban_proportional_representation" title="Rural–urban proportional representation">Rural–urban proportional</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Template_talk:Electoral_systems_sidebar" title="Template talk:Electoral systems sidebar"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Electoral_systems_sidebar" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Electoral systems sidebar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Plurality voting</b> refers to <a href="/wiki/Electoral_system" title="Electoral system">electoral systems</a> in which the candidates in an <a href="/wiki/Electoral_district" title="Electoral district">electoral district</a> who poll more than any other (that is, receive a <a href="/wiki/Plurality_(voting)" title="Plurality (voting)">plurality</a>) are elected.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMudambiNavarraNicosia1996341_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMudambiNavarraNicosia1996341-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under single-winner plurality voting, and in systems based on <a href="/wiki/Single-member_district" title="Single-member district">single-member districts</a>, plurality voting is called single member [district] plurality (SMP),<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which is widely known as "<a href="/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting" title="First-past-the-post voting">first-past-the-post</a>". In SMP/FPTP the leading candidate, whether or not they have a majority of votes, is elected.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are several versions of plurality voting for multi-member district.<sup id="cite_ref-Plurality_Electoral_Systems_—_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Plurality_Electoral_Systems_—-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The system that elects multiple winners at once with the plurality rule and where each voter casts as many X votes as the number of seats in a multi-seat district is referred to as <a href="/wiki/Plurality_block_voting" title="Plurality block voting">plurality block voting</a>. A semi-proportional system that elects multiple winners elected at once with the plurality rule and where each voter casts more than one vote but fewer than the number of seats to fill in a multi-seat district is known as <a href="/wiki/Limited_voting" title="Limited voting">limited voting</a>. A semi-proportional system that elects multiple winners elected at once with the plurality rule and where each voter casts just one vote in a multi-seat district is known as <a href="/wiki/Single_non-transferable_voting" class="mw-redirect" title="Single non-transferable voting">single non-transferable voting</a>. </p><p>Plurality voting is widely used throughout the English-speaking world as a result of its spread by the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a>, including in most of the United States. Outside of the English-speaking world, it is less popular<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> than its close relatives in the <a href="/wiki/Runoff_voting_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Runoff voting (disambiguation)">runoff family of methods</a>. Overall, more countries in the world use a form of <a href="/wiki/Proportional_representation" title="Proportional representation">proportional representation</a> than use plurality or a form of runoff.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plurality_voting_procedures">Plurality voting procedures</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plurality voting procedures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Single-winner_and_single-member_systems">Single-winner and single-member systems</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Single-winner and single-member systems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting" title="First-past-the-post voting">First-past-the-post voting</a></div> <p>In single-winner plurality voting (<a href="/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting" title="First-past-the-post voting">first-past-the-post</a>), each voter is allowed to vote for only one candidate, and the winner of the election is the candidate who represents a plurality of voters or, in other words, received more votes than any other candidate. In an election for a single seat, such as for <a href="/wiki/President_(government_title)" title="President (government title)">president</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Presidential_system" title="Presidential system">presidential system</a>, voters may vote for one candidate from a list of the candidates who are competing, and the winner is whichever candidate receives the highest number of votes. Compare first-past-the-post to a <i>majority</i> system, the <a href="/wiki/Two-round_system" title="Two-round system">two-round system</a>, where usually the top two candidates in the first ballot progress to the second round, also called the runoff. A runoff is by default not held, if a candidate already received an absolute majority in the first ballot (more than half of votes), and in the second ballot, where there are only two candidates, one of the candidates will (except for a tie) receive a majority. Under plurality rules, the candidates are not at any point in the election required to have majority support. </p><p>In an election for a legislative body with single-member seats, each voter in a geographically defined <a href="/wiki/Constituency" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituency">electoral district</a> may vote for one candidate from a list of the candidates who are competing to represent that district. Under the plurality system, the winner of the election then becomes the representative of the whole electoral district and serves with representatives of other electoral districts. That makes plurality voting among the simplest of all electoral systems for voters and vote counting officials;<sup id="cite_ref-:7_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> however, the drawing of district boundary lines can be <a href="/wiki/Gerrymandering" title="Gerrymandering">contentious</a> in the plurality system (see <a href="/wiki/Gerrymandering" title="Gerrymandering">gerrymandering</a>). The system is also independent of parties; the party with the most votes overall may not win the most seats overall (<a href="/wiki/Electoral_inversion" class="mw-redirect" title="Electoral inversion">electoral inversion</a>). Note that issues arising from single-member districts are still in place with majority voting systems, like the two-round system and <a href="/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting" title="Instant-runoff voting">instant-runoff voting</a> too. </p><p>The same principle used in single-winner plurality voting (electing the candidate with the most votes) is also used in <a href="/wiki/Approval_voting" title="Approval voting">approval voting</a>, however with very different effects, as voters can choose to support as many or few candidates as they choose, not just one. For this reason, approval voting is usually distinguished from plurality voting, while technically being a sub-type of it. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Multi-winner_systems">Multi-winner systems</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Multi-winner systems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Single_non-transferable_vote" title="Single non-transferable vote">Single non-transferable vote</a>, <a href="/wiki/Multiple_non-transferable_vote" class="mw-redirect" title="Multiple non-transferable vote">Multiple non-transferable vote</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Limited_voting" title="Limited voting">Limited voting</a></div> <p>Multi-member plurality elections are only slightly more complicated. Where <i>n</i> is the number of seats in the district, the <i>n</i> candidates who get more votes than the others are elected;<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the winners are the <i>n</i> candidates with the largest number of votes. The rules may allow the voter to vote for one candidate, for a number of candidates more than one but less than <i>n</i>, for as many as <i>n</i> candidates, or some other number. </p><p>When voters may vote for only one candidate, it is called the <a href="/wiki/Single_non-transferable_vote" title="Single non-transferable vote">single non-transferable vote</a>. While seemingly most similar to <a href="/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting" title="First-past-the-post voting">first-past-the-post</a>, in effect it is a semi-proportional system allowing for mixed representation in one district, and representation of both majority parties and electoral minorities within a district. </p><p>When voters can vote for one or more candidates, but in total less than the number of winners, it is called <a href="/wiki/Limited_voting" title="Limited voting">limited voting</a>. </p><p>The multi-winner version considered to be the extension of first-past-the-post to multi-winner cases is <a href="/wiki/Plurality_block_voting" title="Plurality block voting">plurality block voting</a>. Here voters may vote for as many candidates as there are seats to fill, which means usually candidates from the largest party will fill all the seats in the district. </p><p>The party-list version of plurality voting in multi-member districts is called <a href="/wiki/General_ticket" title="General ticket">party block voting</a>. Here the party receiving a plurality of votes wins all of the seats available. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ballot_types">Ballot types</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Ballot types"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Plurality_ballot.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Plurality_ballot.svg/220px-Plurality_ballot.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="285" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Plurality_ballot.svg/330px-Plurality_ballot.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Plurality_ballot.svg/440px-Plurality_ballot.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="765" data-file-height="990" /></a><figcaption>An example of a plurality ballot</figcaption></figure> <p>Generally, plurality ballots can be categorized into two forms. The simplest form is a blank ballot in which the name of a candidate(s) is written in by hand. A more structured ballot will list all the candidates and allow a mark to be made next to the name of a single candidate (or more than one, in some cases); however, a structured ballot can also include space for a <a href="/wiki/Write-in_candidate" title="Write-in candidate">write-in candidate</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Examples">Examples</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Examples"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Single-winner">Single-winner</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Single-winner"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This is a general example for single-winner plurality voting ("first-past-the-post"), using population percentages taken from one <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">state</a> for illustrative purposes. <span class="anchor" id="Tennessee"></span> </p> <div style="float: left;"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Tenn_voting_example" title="Template:Tenn voting example"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Tenn_voting_example" title="Template talk:Tenn voting example"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Tenn_voting_example" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Tenn voting example"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></div> <p><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tennessee_map_for_voting_example.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Tennessee and its four major cities: Memphis in the far west; Nashville in the center; Chattanooga in the east; and Knoxville in the far northeast" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Tennessee_map_for_voting_example.svg/500px-Tennessee_map_for_voting_example.svg.png" decoding="async" width="500" height="122" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Tennessee_map_for_voting_example.svg/750px-Tennessee_map_for_voting_example.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Tennessee_map_for_voting_example.svg/1000px-Tennessee_map_for_voting_example.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="780" data-file-height="190" /></a></span> </p><p>Suppose that <a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a> is holding an election on the location of its <a href="/wiki/Capital_city" title="Capital city">capital</a>. The population is concentrated around four major cities. <a href="/wiki/Spatial_voting" title="Spatial voting">All voters want the capital to be as close to them as possible.</a> The options are: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis</a>, the largest city, but far from the others (42% of voters)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville</a>, near the center of the state (26% of voters)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chattanooga,_Tennessee" title="Chattanooga, Tennessee">Chattanooga</a>, somewhat east (15% of voters)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knoxville,_Tennessee" title="Knoxville, Tennessee">Knoxville</a>, far to the northeast (17% of voters)</li></ul> <p>The preferences of each region's voters are: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th width="25%" style="background-color: #ffdddd">42% of voters<br /><small>Far-West</small> </th> <th width="25%" style="background-color: #ccffcc">26% of voters<br /><small>Center</small> </th> <th width="25%" style="background-color: #ddddff">15% of voters<br /><small>Center-East</small> </th> <th width="25%" style="background-color: #ffeedd">17% of voters<br /><small>Far-East</small> </th></tr> <tr> <td> <ol style="margin-left: 1.5em;"> <li> <b>Memphis</b> </li><li> Nashville </li><li> Chattanooga </li><li> Knoxville </li></ol> </td> <td> <ol style="margin-left: 1.5em;"> <li> <b>Nashville</b> </li><li> Chattanooga </li><li> Knoxville </li><li> Memphis </li></ol> </td> <td> <ol style="margin-left: 1.5em;"> <li> <b>Chattanooga</b> </li><li> Knoxville </li><li> Nashville </li><li> Memphis </li></ol> </td> <td> <ol style="margin-left: 1.5em;"> <li> <b>Knoxville</b> </li><li> Chattanooga </li><li> Nashville </li><li> Memphis </li></ol> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><br /> If each voter in each city naively selects one city on the ballot (Memphis voters select Memphis, Nashville voters select Nashville, and so on), Memphis will be selected, as it has the most votes 42%. The system does not require that the winner have a <a href="/wiki/Majority" title="Majority">majority</a>, only a plurality. Memphis wins because it has the most votes even though 58% of the voters in the example preferred Memphis least. The opposite result would occur in <a href="/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting" title="Instant-runoff voting">instant-runoff</a>, where Knoxville (the city furthest to the east, and the "second-worst" choice) would accumulate a majority from vote transfers from voter who initially voted for Chattanooga and Nashville. Nashville is the <a href="/wiki/Majority-preferred_winner" class="mw-redirect" title="Majority-preferred winner">majority-preferred winner</a>, and as a result would be elected by any <a href="/wiki/Condorcet_method" title="Condorcet method">Condorcet method</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Multi-winner">Multi-winner</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Multi-winner"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Candidates are running in a 3-member district of 10 000 voters. </p><p>Under non-transferable (and non-cumulative) plurality voting, each voter may cast no more than one vote for a single candidate, even if they have multiple votes to cast. </p> <ul><li>Under <a href="/wiki/Plurality_block_voting" title="Plurality block voting">block voting</a>, the standard multiple-winner non-transferable vote election method, voters may cast 3 votes (but do not have to)</li> <li>Under <a href="/wiki/Limited_voting" title="Limited voting">limited voting</a>, voters may cast 2 votes maximum</li> <li>Under the single non-transferable vote, voters may cast 1 vote</li></ul> <p>Party A has about 35% support among the electorate (with one particularly well-liked candidate), Party B around 25% (with two well-liked candidates) and the remaining voters primarily support independent candidates, but mostly lean towards party B if they have to choose between the two parties. All voters <a href="/wiki/Sincere_voting" class="mw-redirect" title="Sincere voting">vote sincerely</a>; there is no tactical voting. (Percentage of votes under MNTV and Limited Voting is the percentage of voters who voted for the candidate, not the percentage of votes cast.) </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="3">Candidate </th> <th colspan="2" rowspan="3">Party </th> <th colspan="8">Multiple non-transferable vote </th> <th colspan="4" rowspan="2">Single non-transferable vote </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="4">Plurality block voting </th> <th colspan="4">Limited voting </th></tr> <tr> <th>Votes </th> <th>% </th> <th colspan="2">Elected? </th> <th>Votes </th> <th>% </th> <th colspan="2">Elected? </th> <th>Votes </th> <th>% </th> <th colspan="2">Elected? </th></tr> <tr> <td>Candidate A1 </td> <td style="background:#D10000"> </td> <td>Party A </td> <td><b>3700</b> </td> <td><b>37%</b> </td> <td><b>1.</b> </td> <td><b>Yes</b> </td> <td><b>3500</b> </td> <td><b>35%</b> </td> <td><b>1.</b> </td> <td><b>Yes</b> </td> <td><b>2000</b> </td> <td><b>20%</b> </td> <td><b>1.</b> </td> <td><b>Yes</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Candidate A2 </td> <td style="background:#D10000"> </td> <td>Party A </td> <td><b>3600</b> </td> <td><b>36%</b> </td> <td><b>2.</b> </td> <td><b>Yes</b> </td> <td><b>1900</b> </td> <td><b>19%</b> </td> <td><b>2.</b> </td> <td><b>Yes</b> </td> <td>800 </td> <td>8% </td> <td>4. </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Candidate A3 </td> <td style="background:#D10000"> </td> <td>Party A </td> <td><b>3555</b> </td> <td><b>36%</b> </td> <td><b>3.</b> </td> <td><b>Yes</b> </td> <td>1800 </td> <td>18% </td> <td>4. </td> <td> </td> <td>700 </td> <td>7% </td> <td>7. </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Candidate B1 </td> <td style="background:#0008A5"> </td> <td>Party B </td> <td>2600 </td> <td>26% </td> <td>4. </td> <td> </td> <td><b>1950</b> </td> <td><b>20%</b> </td> <td><b>3.</b> </td> <td><b>Yes</b> </td> <td><b>1100</b> </td> <td><b>11%</b> </td> <td><b>2.</b> </td> <td><b>Yes</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Candidate B2 </td> <td style="background:#0008A5"> </td> <td>Party B </td> <td>2500 </td> <td>25% </td> <td>5. </td> <td> </td> <td>1750 </td> <td>18% </td> <td>4. </td> <td> </td> <td><b>900</b> </td> <td><b>9%</b> </td> <td><b>3.</b> </td> <td><b>Yes</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Candidate B3 </td> <td style="background:#0008A5"> </td> <td>Party B </td> <td>2400 </td> <td>24% </td> <td>6. </td> <td> </td> <td>1425 </td> <td>14% </td> <td>7. </td> <td> </td> <td>400 </td> <td>4% </td> <td>12. </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Candidate I1 </td> <td> </td> <td>Independent </td> <td>2300 </td> <td>23% </td> <td>8. </td> <td> </td> <td>1400 </td> <td>14% </td> <td>8. </td> <td> </td> <td>800 </td> <td>8% </td> <td>4. </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Candidate I2 </td> <td> </td> <td>Independent </td> <td>2395 </td> <td>24% </td> <td>7. </td> <td> </td> <td>1500 </td> <td>15% </td> <td>6. </td> <td> </td> <td>800 </td> <td>8% </td> <td>4. </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Candidate I3 </td> <td> </td> <td>Independent </td> <td>1900 </td> <td>19% </td> <td>9. </td> <td> </td> <td>1300 </td> <td>13% </td> <td>9. </td> <td> </td> <td>700 </td> <td>7% </td> <td>7. </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Candidate I4 </td> <td> </td> <td>Independent </td> <td>1800 </td> <td>15% </td> <td>10 </td> <td> </td> <td>1200 </td> <td>12% </td> <td>10. </td> <td> </td> <td>700 </td> <td>7% </td> <td>7. </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Candidate I5 </td> <td> </td> <td>Independent </td> <td>650 </td> <td>7% </td> <td>11. </td> <td> </td> <td>625 </td> <td>6% </td> <td>11. </td> <td> </td> <td>600 </td> <td>6% </td> <td>10. </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Candidate I6 </td> <td> </td> <td>Independent </td> <td>600 </td> <td>6% </td> <td>12. </td> <td> </td> <td>550 </td> <td>6% </td> <td>12. </td> <td> </td> <td>500 </td> <td>5% </td> <td>11. </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"><i>TOTAL votes cast</i> </td> <td>28000 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>19000 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>10000 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">TOTAL possible votes </td> <td>30000 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>20000 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>10000 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">Voters </td> <td>10000 </td> <td>100% </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>10000 </td> <td>100% </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>10000 </td> <td>100% </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Under all three versions of multi-winner plurality voting, the three most popular candidates according to voters' first preferences are elected, regardless of party affiliation, but with three different results. </p> <ul><li>Under block voting (<a href="/wiki/Plurality_block_voting" title="Plurality block voting">Plurality block voting</a>), the three candidates of the most popular party are elected if its supporters vote along party lines. In this case a party with only 35 percent support took all the seats.</li> <li>Under limited voting, it is most likely that the party with a plurality takes two seats (or the same number of seats as the number of votes each voter has), and another less-popular party receives the remaining seat(s).</li> <li>Under the single non-transferable vote (like in the other two methods) the number of seats are sometimes not proportionately allocated. Over-optimism (running too many candidates) and vote splitting is harshly punished. But each popular party that runs one candidate is assured of success to that degree anyway. In this case, even though the most-popular party ran three and risked vote splitting, it did elect one member.</li> <li>In a situation where three are to be elected and <a href="/wiki/Single_transferable_vote" title="Single transferable vote">single transferable voting</a> is used, ranked votes are used and each voter has just one vote, any candidate that accumulates about 25 percent of the vote will be elected and supporters of one party even if initially spread over two or three candidates can concentrate behind only one or two, just the candidates of the party that are electable. The plurality rule applies in that the most-popular candidates of the party are the ones that are elected.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Issues">Issues</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Issues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_all_plurality_systems">In all plurality systems</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: In all plurality systems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Wasted_votes">Wasted votes</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Wasted votes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vote_12345-en.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Vote_12345-en.svg/220px-Vote_12345-en.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Vote_12345-en.svg/330px-Vote_12345-en.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Vote_12345-en.svg/440px-Vote_12345-en.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="296" /></a><figcaption>A ballot with a potential wasted vote goes into the voting box</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Wasted_vote" title="Wasted vote">Wasted votes</a> are those cast for candidates or parties who did not get elected. Some number of wasted votes by this definition is practically unavoidable, but plurality systems suffer from large numbers of wasted votes. For example, in the <a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">UK general election of 2005</a>, 52% of votes were cast for losing candidates and 18% were excess votes, a total of 70% wasted votes. That is perhaps the most fundamental criticism of FPTP, the single-member plurality system, since at least half the votes are always wasted in a district, either as being placed on un-elected candidates or being surplus to what could be needed to win. </p><p>SMP is in practice similar in plurality block voting. They both operate under the "winner-takes-all" principle, which means that the party of the losing candidates in each district receive no representation, regardless of the number of votes they receive.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even the single non-transferable vote can result in very inefficient results if many candidates with small support compete or the most-popular candidates receive a large excess of votes. This is because like other plurality systems, SNTV does not transfer loser and surplus votes. </p><p>Another way to count wasted votes, is to see the ones that may play no part in determining the outcome.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under FPTP for example, usually only votes for the top two candidates can be seen as really competing for the position, with only one possible to win; votes placed on other candidates are almost certain not to be used to elect anyone and therefore wasted. Sometimes not even two candidate are seen as being competitive. Due to having a history of repeatedly electing candidates of a certain party, many districts are known to have <a href="/wiki/Safe_seat" title="Safe seat">safe seats</a>. On such, a candidate or party has a near 100% chance that they win the seats. Supporters of others sometimes do not even bother to vote knowing of the odds that face their candidate. </p><p>Alternative electoral systems, such as <a href="/wiki/Proportional_representation" title="Proportional representation">proportional representation</a>, attempt to ensure that almost all of the votes are effective in influencing the result and electing a representative, which minimizes vote wastage.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Such systems decreases disproportionality in election results and are also credited for increasing voter turnout.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Tactical_voting">Tactical voting</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Tactical voting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Plurality_voting" title="Special:EditPage/Plurality voting">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. 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In single-member plurality, this will instead reduce support for one of the two major candidates whom the voter might prefer to the other. Electors who prefer not to waste their vote by voting for a candidate with a very low chance of winning their constituency vote for their lesser preferred candidate who has a higher chance of winning.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The minority party will then simply take votes away from one of the major parties, which could change the outcome and gain nothing for the voters. Any other party will typically need to build up its votes and credibility over a series of elections before it is seen as electable. </p><p>In the <a href="#Example">Tennessee example</a>, if all the voters for Chattanooga and Knoxville had instead voted for Nashville, Nashville would have won (with 58% of the vote). That would have only been the third choice for those voters, but voting for their respective first choices (their own cities) actually results in their fourth choice (Memphis) being elected. </p><p>The difficulty is sometimes summed up in an extreme form, as "All votes for anyone other than the second place are votes for the winner". That is because by voting for other candidates, voters have denied those votes to the second-place candidate, who could have won had they received them. It is often claimed by United States <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrats</a> that Democrat <a href="/wiki/Al_Gore" title="Al Gore">Al Gore</a> lost the <a href="/wiki/2000_U.S._presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2000 U.S. presidential election">2000 Presidential Election</a> to <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> because some voters on the left voted for <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Nader" title="Ralph Nader">Ralph Nader</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_the_United_States" title="Green Party of the United States">Green Party</a>, who, exit polls indicated, would have preferred Gore at 45% to Bush at 27%, with the rest not voting in Nader's absence.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>That thinking is illustrated by elections in <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> and its three principal voter groups: the <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rican_Independence_Party" title="Puerto Rican Independence Party">Independentistas</a> (pro-independence), the <a href="/wiki/Popular_Democratic_Party_(Puerto_Rico)" title="Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)">Populares</a> (pro-<a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_(U.S._insular_area)" title="Commonwealth (U.S. insular area)">commonwealth</a>), and the <a href="/wiki/New_Progressive_Party_(Puerto_Rico)" title="New Progressive Party (Puerto Rico)">Estadistas</a> (pro-<a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">statehood</a>). Historically, there has been a tendency for Independentista voters to elect Popular candidates and policies. This results in more Popular victories even though the Estadistas have the most voters on the island. It is so widely recognised that the Puerto Ricans sometimes call the Independentistas who vote for the Populares "melons" in reference to the party colours, because the fruit is green on the outside but red on the inside. </p><p>Such tactical voting can cause significant perturbation to the system: </p> <ul><li>Substantial power is given to the <a href="/wiki/News_media" title="News media">news media</a>. Some voters will tend to believe the media's assertions as to who the leading contenders are likely to be in the election. Even voters who distrust the media know that other voters believe the media, and so those candidates who receive the most media attention will nonetheless be the most popular, and thus most likely to be one of the top two.</li> <li>A new candidate, who is in principle supported by the majority of voters, may be considered unlikely to become one of the top two candidates, because of the lack of a track record. The candidate will thus receive fewer votes, which will then give them a reputation as a low poller in future elections, which perpetuates the problem.</li> <li>The system may promote votes against than for a candidate. In the UK, entire campaigns have been organised with the aim of voting against the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> by voting either <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> or <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrat</a>. For example, in a <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_constituencies" title="United Kingdom constituencies">constituency</a> held by the Conservatives, with the Liberal Democrats as the second-placed party and the Labour Party in third, Labour supporters might be urged to vote for the Liberal Democrat candidate, who has a smaller hurdle to overcome and more support in the constituency than their own party candidate, on the basis that Labour supporters would prefer an MP from a competing leftist or liberal party than a Conservative one. Similarly, in Labour/Liberal Democrat marginals in which the Conservatives are third, Conservative voters may be encouraged or tempted to vote Liberal Democrat to help defeat Labour.</li> <li>If enough voters use this tactic, the first-past-the-post system becomes, effectively, <a href="/wiki/Two-round_system" title="Two-round system">runoff voting</a>, a completely different system, in which the first round is held in the court of public opinion. A good example was the <a href="/wiki/1997_Winchester_by-election" title="1997 Winchester by-election">1997 Winchester by-election</a>.</li></ul> <p>Proponents of other single-winner electoral systems argue that their proposals would reduce the need for tactical voting and reduce the <a href="/wiki/Spoiler_effect" title="Spoiler effect">spoiler effect</a>. Other systems include the commonly used <a href="/wiki/Two-round_system" title="Two-round system">two-round system</a> of runoffs and <a href="/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting" title="Instant-runoff voting">instant-runoff voting</a>, along with less-tested and perhaps less-understood systems such as <a href="/wiki/Approval_voting" title="Approval voting">approval voting</a>, <a href="/wiki/Score_voting" title="Score voting">score voting</a> and <a href="/wiki/Condorcet_methods" class="mw-redirect" title="Condorcet methods">Condorcet methods</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Tactical_voting" class="mw-redirect" title="Tactical voting">Tactical voting</a> is when a voter decides to vote in a way that does not represent their true preference or choice, motivated by an intent to influence election outcomes.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Strategic behaviour by voters can and does influence the outcome of voting in different plurality voting systems. Strategic behaviour is when a voter casts their vote for a different party or alternative district/constituency/riding<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (August 2023)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> in order to induce, in their opinion, a better outcome. An example of this is when a person really likes party A but votes for party B because they do not like party C or D or because they believe that party A has little to no chance of winning.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This can cause the outcome of very close votes to be swayed for the wrong reason. This might have had an impact on the <a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election" title="2000 United States presidential election">2000 United States election</a> that was essentially decided by fewer than 600 votes, with the winner being <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">President Bush</a>. When voters behave in a strategic way and expect others to do the same, they end up voting for one of the two leading candidates, making the Condorcet alternative more likely to be elected.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The prevalence of strategic voting in an election makes it difficult to evaluate the true political state of the population, as their true political ideologies are not reflected in their votes.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Spoiler_effect">Spoiler effect</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Spoiler effect"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Spoiler_effect" title="Spoiler effect">Spoiler effect</a></div> <p>The spoiler effect is especially severe in plurality voting, where candidates with similar ideologies are forced to split the vote with each other.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One spoiler candidate's presence in the election draws votes from a major candidate with similar politics, which causes a strong opponent of both or several to win.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even extremely small parties with very little first-preference support can therefore affect the outcome of an FPTP election.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Manipulation_charges">Manipulation charges</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Manipulation charges"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The presence of <a href="/wiki/Spoiler_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spoiler (politician)">spoilers</a> often gives rise to suspicions that <a href="/wiki/Strategic_nomination" title="Strategic nomination">manipulation of the slate</a> has taken place. The spoiler may have received incentives to run. A spoiler may also drop out at the last moment, which induces charges that such an act was intended from the beginning. Voters who are uninformed do not have a comparable opportunity to manipulate their votes as voters who understand all opposing sides, understand the pros and cons of voting for each party. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Gerrymandering">Gerrymandering</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Gerrymandering"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Because FPTP permits a high level of wasted votes, an election under FPTP is easily gerrymandered unless safeguards are in place.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Gerrymandering" title="Gerrymandering">gerrymandering</a>, a party in power deliberately manipulates constituency boundaries to increase the number of seats that it wins unfairly. </p><p>In brief, if a governing party G wishes to reduce the seats that will be won by opposition party O in the next election, it can create a number of constituencies in each of which O has an overwhelming majority of votes. O will win these seats, but many of its voters will waste their votes. Then, the rest of the constituencies are designed to have small majorities for G. Few G votes are wasted, and G will win many seats by small margins. As a result of the gerrymander, O's seats have cost it more votes than G's seats. </p><p><b>Efficiency gap</b>: The <i><a href="/wiki/Efficiency_gap" title="Efficiency gap">efficiency gap</a></i> measures gerrymandering and has been scrutinized in the Supreme Court of the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The efficiency gap is the difference between the two parties' wasted votes, divided by the total number of votes.<sup id="cite_ref-82UofCLawReview_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82UofCLawReview-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NewRepublic20140702_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NewRepublic20140702-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_some_plurality_systems">In some plurality systems</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: In some plurality systems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Fewer_political_parties">Fewer political parties</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Fewer political parties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Plurality_voting" title="Special:EditPage/Plurality voting">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">October 2018</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Percentage_graph_UK_POLITICS_2005.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Percentage_graph_UK_POLITICS_2005.png/220px-Percentage_graph_UK_POLITICS_2005.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Percentage_graph_UK_POLITICS_2005.png/330px-Percentage_graph_UK_POLITICS_2005.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Percentage_graph_UK_POLITICS_2005.png/440px-Percentage_graph_UK_POLITICS_2005.png 2x" data-file-width="652" data-file-height="533" /></a><figcaption>A graph showing the difference between the popular vote and the number of seats won by major political parties at the <a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005 United Kingdom general election</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Duverger%27s_law" title="Duverger's law">Duverger's law</a> is a theory that constituencies that use first-past-the-post systems will eventually become a <a href="/wiki/Two-party_system" title="Two-party system">two-party system</a> after enough time.<sup id="cite_ref-GrofmanBlais2009_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GrofmanBlais2009-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two dominating parties regularly alternate in power and easily win constituencies due to the structure of plurality voting systems.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This puts smaller parties who struggle to meet the threshold of votes at a disadvantage, and inhibits growth.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Plurality voting tends to reduce the number of political parties to a greater extent than most other methods do, making it more likely that a single party will hold a majority of legislative seats. (In the United Kingdom, 22 out of 27 general elections since 1922 have produced a single-party majority government or, in the case of the National Governments, a parliament from which such a single-party government could have been drawn.) </p><p>Plurality voting's tendency toward fewer parties and more-frequent majorities of one party can also produce a government that may not consider as wide a range of perspectives and concerns. It is entirely possible that a voter finds all major parties to have similar views on issues, and that a voter does not have a meaningful way of expressing a dissenting opinion through their vote. </p><p>As fewer choices are offered to voters, voters may vote for a candidate although they disagree with them because they disagree even more with their opponents. That will make candidates less closely reflect the viewpoints of those who vote for them. </p><p>Furthermore, one-party rule is more likely to lead to radical changes in government policy even though the changes are favoured only by a plurality or a bare majority of the voters, but a multi-party system usually requires more consensus to make dramatic changes in policy. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Voter_turnout">Voter turnout</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Voter turnout"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Political_apathy" title="Political apathy">Political apathy</a> is prevalent in plurality voting systems such as <a href="/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting" title="First-past-the-post voting">FPTP</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Studies suggest that plurality voting system fails to incentivize citizens to vote, which results in very low <a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">voter turnouts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under this system, many people feel that voting is an empty ritual that has no influence on the composition of legislature.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Voters are not assured that the number of seats that political parties are accorded will reflect the popular vote, which disincentivizes them from voting and sends the message that their votes are not valued, and participation in elections does not seem necessary.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_24-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Spoiled_ballots">Spoiled ballots</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Spoiled ballots"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="[icon]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/30px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">April 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Issues_specific_to_particular_countries">Issues specific to particular countries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Issues specific to particular countries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Solomon_Islands">Solomon Islands</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Solomon Islands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In August 2008, Sir <a href="/wiki/Peter_Kenilorea" title="Peter Kenilorea">Peter Kenilorea</a> commented on what he perceived as the flaws of a first-past-the-post electoral system in the <a href="/wiki/Solomon_Islands" title="Solomon Islands">Solomon Islands</a>: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p><i>An... underlying cause of political instability and poor governance, in my opinion, is our electoral system and its related problems. It has been identified by a number of academics and practitioners that the First Past the Post system is such that a Member elected to Parliament is sometimes elected by a small percentage of voters where there are many candidates in a particular constituency. I believe that this system is part of the reason why voters ignore political parties and why candidates try an appeal to voters' material desires and relationships instead of political parties.... Moreover, this system creates a political environment where a Member is elected by a relatively small number of voters with the effect that this Member is then expected to ignore his party's philosophy and instead look after that core base of voters in terms of their material needs. Another relevant factor that I see in relation to the electoral system is the proven fact that it is rather conducive, and thus has not prevented, corrupt elections practices such as ballot buying.</i></p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://solomonstarnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3184&change=103&changeown=89&Itemid=45">"Realising political stability"</a>, Sir Peter Kenilorea, <i>Solomon Star</i>, 30 August 2008</cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arguments_for_plurality">Arguments for plurality</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Arguments for plurality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Simplicity_and_familiarity">Simplicity and familiarity</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Simplicity and familiarity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Plurality voting is generally considered one of the simplest methods and of the most widely known.<sup id="cite_ref-Plurality_Electoral_Systems_—_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Plurality_Electoral_Systems_—-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because of its widespread use, in situations where people become voters, it will not be a new concept for most and may even be expected. Other systems may specifically need to be explained to the voters and may be perceived as more complicated. </p><p>Widespread familiarity with the system does not imply widespread familiarity with the effects. Voters may not be aware of the issues in plurality voting, therefore they may vote sincerely even in situations where voting theory would suggest they should vote tactically, thereby voting against their rational interests.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Another counter-argument is that plurality voting is partially considered simple because of its familiarity, which in turn results from its prevalence. Such argument is made by proponents of another plurality-based system, approval voting, where unlike usual plurality voting, voters may vote for any number of candidates. If approval voting is default, plurality voting (where voters only cast one otherwise fixed number of votes) would be seen at least equally unfamiliar to voters. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ease_of_balloting">Ease of balloting</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Ease of balloting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Under plurality voting, ballots use simple marks instead of ranking or scoring, which can make especially paper-based ballots simpler.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, non-plurality systems such as <a href="/wiki/Closed_list" title="Closed list">closed list</a> PR may also use just as simple ballots. </p><p>In cases without ballots, such as open voting by raised hands, for example, there are simpler methods that do not require checking for people who voted more than they are allowed to, for example, <a href="/wiki/Approval_voting" title="Approval voting">approval voting</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ease_of_counting">Ease of counting</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Ease of counting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With plurality voting, counting and summing up votes is generally an easy process, and this may be done on a precinct level and then summed up for a total with the same results. Some alternative methods, such as <a href="/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting" title="Instant-runoff voting">instant-runoff-voting</a> do not work this way and either counting has to take place centrally, or complete (non-aggregated) results from precincts need to be submitted to the central authority for results. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Arguments_for_single-member_plurality">Arguments for single-member plurality</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Arguments for single-member plurality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting" title="First-past-the-post voting">First-past-the-post voting</a></div> <p>Common arguments for specifically the single-winner variant of plurality voting are constituency representation (which all other single-winner systems provide to the same degree) and governmental stability (which is dependent on other factors as well).<sup id="cite_ref-Plurality_Electoral_Systems_—_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Plurality_Electoral_Systems_—-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These arguments can be made for some multi-member versions and plurality voting in general too.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Voting_system_attributes_and_comparison_to_non-plurality_systems">Voting system attributes and comparison to non-plurality systems</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Voting system attributes and comparison to non-plurality systems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Attributes_and_criteria">Attributes and criteria</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Attributes and criteria"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Majority criterion:</b> Will a candidate always win who is ranked as the unique favorite by a majority of voters? </p> <dl><dt><dfn><a href="/wiki/Independence_of_clones_criterion" title="Independence of clones criterion">Independence of clone alternatives</a> (cloneproof)</dfn></dt> <dd>Does the outcome never change if non-winning candidates similar to an existing candidate are added? There are three different phenomena which could cause a method to fail this criterion: <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Vote-splitting" class="mw-redirect" title="Vote-splitting">Spoilers</a></dt> <dd>Candidates which decrease the chance of any of the similar or clone candidates winning, also known as a <a href="/wiki/Spoiler_effect" title="Spoiler effect">spoiler effect</a>.</dd> <dt>Teams</dt> <dd>Sets of similar candidates whose mere presence helps the chances of any of them winning.</dd> <dt>Crowds</dt> <dd>Additional candidates who affect the outcome of an election without either helping or harming the chances of their factional group, but instead affecting another group.</dd></dl></dd></dl> <p><b>No favorite betrayal:</b> Can voters be sure that they do not need to rank any other candidate above their favorite in order to obtain a result they prefer? </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Number of winners </th> <th>System </th> <th>Candidate/list </th> <th>Ballot type (number of votes) </th> <th>Representation </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Majority_favorite_criterion" class="mw-redirect" title="Majority favorite criterion">Majority criterion</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Independence_of_clones_criterion" title="Independence of clones criterion">Independence of clones</a> </th> <th>No favorite betrayal </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><b>Single-winner</b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting" title="First-past-the-post voting"><b>First-past-the-post</b></a> </td> <td>Candidate </td> <td><b>mark 1</b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Majoritarian_representation" class="mw-redirect" title="Majoritarian representation"><b>Majoritarian</b></a> </td> <td><b>Yes</b> </td> <td><b>No (spoilers)</b> </td> <td><b>No</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Approval_voting" title="Approval voting">Approval voting</a> </td> <td>Candidate </td> <td>mark any number </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Majoritarian_representation" class="mw-redirect" title="Majoritarian representation">Majoritarian</a> </td> <td>Yes </td> <td>Yes </td> <td>No </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5"><b>Multi-winner</b> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Plurality_block_voting" title="Plurality block voting">Plurality block voting</a></b> </td> <td>Candidate </td> <td><b>mark at most as many as seats</b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Majoritarian_representation" class="mw-redirect" title="Majoritarian representation"><b>Majoritarian</b></a> </td> <td><b>Yes</b> </td> <td><b>No (spoilers, crowds)</b> </td> <td><b>No</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Limited_voting" title="Limited voting">Limited voting</a></b> </td> <td>Candidate </td> <td><b>mark k</b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Semi-proportional_representation" title="Semi-proportional representation"><b>Semi-proportional</b></a> </td> <td><b>Yes</b> </td> <td><b>No (spoilers, crowds)</b> </td> <td><b>No</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Single_non-transferable_vote" title="Single non-transferable vote">Single non-transferable vote</a></b> </td> <td>Candidate </td> <td><b>mark 1</b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Semi-proportional_representation" title="Semi-proportional representation"><b>Semi-proportional</b></a> </td> <td><b>Yes</b> </td> <td><b>No (spoilers, crowds)</b> </td> <td><b>No</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/General_ticket" title="General ticket"><b>Party block voting/General ticket (plurality)</b></a> </td> <td>List </td> <td><b>mark 1</b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Majoritarian_representation" class="mw-redirect" title="Majoritarian representation"><b>Majoritarian</b></a> </td> <td><b>Yes</b> </td> <td><b>No (spoilers)</b> </td> <td><b>No</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Cumulative_voting" title="Cumulative voting">Cumulative voting</a> </td> <td>Candidate </td> <td>distribute fixed number of votes </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Semi-proportional_representation" title="Semi-proportional representation">Semi-proportional</a> </td> <td> </td> <td><b>No (spoilers, crowds)</b> </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Comparison_to_non-plurality_systems">Comparison to non-plurality systems</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Comparison to non-plurality systems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Plurality voting is often contrasted with (absolute) majority voting<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where variant of runoff voting (multi-round voting) are also classified. However, in formal social choice theory, the term majority voting has a different definition, and runoff voting methods could also be classified under plurality<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Number of winners </th> <th>Plurality-based systems </th> <th>Non-plurality systems </th> <th>Explanation (what makes non-plurality system fundamentally different) </th> <th> </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="6"><b>Single-winner</b> </td> <td rowspan="6"><a href="/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting" title="First-past-the-post voting"><b>First-past-the-post</b></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Anti-plurality_voting" title="Anti-plurality voting">Anti-plurality</a> </td> <td>Voters mark one candidate they do not want elected, the candidate with least votes wins </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Runoff_voting_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Runoff voting (disambiguation)">Multi-round voting</a> </td> <td>Usually majority rule in first round (candidate wins only if they have more than half of the votes), <p>typically plurality voting (technically: SNTV) determines which candidates compete in second round, majority rule for second round (with only two candidates). </p> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ranked_voting" title="Ranked voting">Ranked systems</a> </td> <td>Voters may rank candidates. <p>Some ranked systems simulate multi-round voting. Some ranked systems use plurality rule with weighted (positional) inputs (<a href="/wiki/Borda_count" title="Borda count">Borda count</a>), but are not considered plurality voting. </p> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Score_voting" title="Score voting">Score voting</a> </td> <td>Voters score candidates on a scale. </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Random_ballot" title="Random ballot">Random ballot</a> </td> <td>Winner gets sorted randomly from ballots </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sortition" title="Sortition">Sortition</a> </td> <td>Does not use ballots </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="9"><b>Multi-winner</b> </td> <td rowspan="6">Candidate-based plurality voting: <p><b><a href="/wiki/Plurality_block_voting" title="Plurality block voting">Plurality block voting</a></b>, <b><a href="/wiki/Limited_voting" title="Limited voting">limited voting</a></b>, <b><a href="/wiki/Single_non-transferable_vote" title="Single non-transferable vote">single non-transferable vote</a></b> </p> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Single_transferable_vote" title="Single transferable vote">Single-transferable vote</a> </td> <td>Voters may rank candidates. Quota determines who gets elected (and which votes get transferred), not plurality rule (except last seats). </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Score_voting" title="Score voting">Score voting</a> </td> <td>Voters may score candidates on a scale. <p><a href="/wiki/Multiwinner_approval_voting" title="Multiwinner approval voting">Approval block voting</a>, while using the plurality rule is also technically a score voting system. </p> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Proportional_approval_voting" title="Proportional approval voting">Proportional approval voting</a> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Multiple random ballots </td> <td>Winners get sorted randomly from ballots </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sortition" title="Sortition">Sortition</a> </td> <td>Does not use ballots </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">Panachage </td> <td rowspan="2">While voters vote only for candidates (and may vote across party lines), the seat allocation is primarily based on list-PR, in an open list-system. </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">List-based plurality voting: <p><a href="/wiki/General_ticket" title="General ticket"><b>Party block voting/General ticket (plurality)</b></a> </p> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Open_list" title="Open list">Open list</a> proportional representation <p>(<a href="/wiki/Party-list_proportional_representation" title="Party-list proportional representation">list-PR</a>) </p> </td> <td>While voters may vote only for candidates (or lists) within lists, the seat allocation is primarily based on <a href="/wiki/Party-list_proportional_representation" title="Party-list proportional representation">list-PR</a>. <p>The candidate votes change ranking within list (usually with plurality rule). </p> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Closed_list" title="Closed list">Closed list</a> proportional representation <p>(<a href="/wiki/Party-list_proportional_representation" title="Party-list proportional representation">list-PR</a>) </p> </td> <td>Voters usually can vote for just one party, but seat allocation is proportional, not by plurality rule. </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="International_examples">International examples</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: International examples"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Plurality voting is used for local and/or national elections in 43 of the 193 countries that are members of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>. It is particularly prevalent in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and India.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_elections_in_the_United_Kingdom">General elections in the United Kingdom</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: General elections in the United Kingdom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The United Kingdom, like the United States and Canada, uses single-member districts as the base for <a href="/wiki/UK_general_election" class="mw-redirect" title="UK general election">national elections</a>. Each electoral district (constituency) chooses one <a href="/wiki/Member_of_parliament" title="Member of parliament">member of parliament</a>, the candidate who gets the most votes, whether or not they get at least 50% of the votes cast ("first past the post"). In 1992, for example, a <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrat in Scotland</a> won a seat (<a href="/wiki/Inverness,_Nairn_and_Lochaber_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections" title="Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)">Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber</a>) with just 26% of the votes. The system of single-member districts with plurality winners tends to produce two large political parties. In countries with proportional representation there is not such a great incentive to vote for a large party, which contributes to <a href="/wiki/Multi-party_system" title="Multi-party system">multi-party systems</a>. </p><p>Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland use the first-past-the-post system for UK general elections but versions of proportional representation for elections to their own assemblies and parliaments. All of the UK used one form or <a href="/wiki/Party-list_proportional_representation" title="Party-list proportional representation">another of proportional representation</a> for European Parliament elections. </p><p>The countries that inherited the British majoritarian system tend toward two large parties: one left and the other right, such as the U.S. Democrats and Republicans. Canada is an exception, with three major political parties consisting of the New Democratic Party, which is to the left; the Conservative Party, which is to the right; and the Liberal Party, which is slightly off-centre but to the left. A fourth party that no longer has major party status is the separatist Bloc Québécois party, which is territorial and runs only in Quebec. New Zealand once used the British system, which yielded two large parties as well. It also left many New Zealanders unhappy because other viewpoints were ignored, which made the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Parliament" title="New Zealand Parliament">New Zealand Parliament</a> in 1993 adopt a new electoral law modelled on <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Germany#Election_system" title="Elections in Germany">Germany's system</a> of proportional representation (PR) with a partial selection by constituencies. New Zealand soon developed a more complex party system.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2015 United Kingdom general election">2015 UK general election</a>, there were calls from <a href="/wiki/UKIP" class="mw-redirect" title="UKIP">UKIP</a> for a switch to the use of proportional representation after it received 3,881,129 votes that produced only one MP.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Green Party was similarly underrepresented, which contrasted greatly with the SNP, a Scottish separatist party that received only 1,454,436 votes but won 56 seats because of more geographically concentrated support. </p><p>The United Kingdom continues to use the first-past-the-post electoral system for general elections, and for local government elections in England and Wales. Changes to the UK system have been proposed, and alternatives were examined by the <a href="/wiki/Jenkins_Commission_(UK)" title="Jenkins Commission (UK)">Jenkins Commission</a> in the late 1990s. After the formation of a new <a href="/wiki/Conservative-Liberal_Democrat_Coalition" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition">coalition government</a> in 2010, it was announced as part of the <a href="/wiki/Conservative-Liberal_Democrat_Coalition_Agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement">coalition agreement</a> that a <a href="/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum" title="2011 United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum">referendum</a> would be held on switching to the <a href="/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting" title="Instant-runoff voting">alternative vote system</a>. However the alternative vote system was rejected 2–1 by British voters in a <a href="/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum" title="2011 United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum">referendum held on 5 May 2011</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Outside_the_United_Kingdom">Outside the United Kingdom</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Outside the United Kingdom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Canada also uses FPTP for national and <a href="/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada" title="Provinces and territories of Canada">provincial</a> elections. In May 2005 the Canadian province of <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia">British Columbia</a> had a referendum on abolishing single-member district plurality in favour of multi-member districts with the <a href="/wiki/Single_transferable_vote" title="Single transferable vote">Single Transferable Vote</a> system after the <a href="/wiki/Citizens%27_Assembly_on_Electoral_Reform_(British_Columbia)" title="Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform (British Columbia)">Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform</a> made a recommendation for the reform. The referendum obtained 57% of the vote, but failed to meet the 60% requirement for passing. A second referendum was held in May 2009, this time the province's voters defeated the change with 39% voting in favour. </p><p>An <a href="/wiki/2007_Ontario_electoral_reform_referendum" title="2007 Ontario electoral reform referendum">October 2007 referendum</a> in the Canadian province of <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a> on adopting a <a href="/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_representation" title="Mixed-member proportional representation">Mixed Member Proportional</a> system, also requiring 60% approval, failed with only 36.9% voting in favour. British Columbia <a href="/wiki/2018_British_Columbia_electoral_reform_referendum" title="2018 British Columbia electoral reform referendum">again called a referendum on the issue in 2018</a> which was defeated by 62% voting to keep current system. </p><p>Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Republic of Ireland, Australia and New Zealand are notable examples of countries within the UK, or with previous links to it, that use non-FPTP electoral systems (Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales use FPTP in United Kingdom general elections, however). </p><p>Nations which have undergone democratic reforms since 1990 but have not adopted the FPTP system include South Africa, almost all of the former Eastern bloc nations, Russia, and Afghanistan. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="List_of_countries">List of countries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit 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href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuwait" title="Kuwait">Kuwait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laos" title="Laos">Laos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberia" title="Liberia">Liberia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malawi" title="Malawi">Malawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maldives" title="Maldives">Maldives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marshall_Islands" title="Marshall Islands">Marshall Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federated_States_of_Micronesia" title="Federated States of Micronesia">Federated States of Micronesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niue" title="Niue">Niue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oman" title="Oman">Oman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palau" title="Palau">Palau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis" title="Saint Kitts and Nevis">Saint Kitts and Nevis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Lucia" title="Saint Lucia">Saint Lucia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines" title="Saint Vincent and the Grenadines">Saint Vincent and the Grenadines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samoa" title="Samoa">Samoa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seychelles" title="Seychelles">Seychelles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sierra_Leone" title="Sierra Leone">Sierra Leone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solomon_Islands" title="Solomon Islands">Solomon Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swaziland" class="mw-redirect" title="Swaziland">Swaziland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tanzania" title="Tanzania">Tanzania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tonga" title="Tonga">Tonga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago" title="Trinidad and Tobago">Trinidad and Tobago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuvalu" title="Tuvalu">Tuvalu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uganda" title="Uganda">Uganda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zambia" title="Zambia">Zambia</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Texas_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Texas gubernatorial election">2006 Texas gubernatorial election</a> – Example of an incumbent governor, <a href="/wiki/Rick_Perry" title="Rick Perry">Rick Perry</a>, winning re-election despite gaining less than 40 per cent of the vote</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cube_rule" title="Cube rule">Cube rule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deviation_from_proportionality" class="mw-redirect" title="Deviation from proportionality">Deviation from proportionality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plurality-at-large_voting" class="mw-redirect" title="Plurality-at-large voting">Plurality-at-large voting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-plurality_voting" title="Anti-plurality voting">Anti-plurality voting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portal:Politics" title="Portal:Politics">List of democracy and elections-related topics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting" title="Instant-runoff voting">Instant-runoff voting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Approval_Voting" class="mw-redirect" title="Approval Voting">Approval Voting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Score_voting" title="Score voting">Score voting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Single_non-transferable_vote" title="Single non-transferable vote">Single non-transferable vote</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Single_transferable_vote" title="Single transferable vote">Single transferable vote</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Two-round_system" title="Two-round system">Runoff voting</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plurality_voting&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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system">Hare-Clark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schulze_STV" title="Schulze STV">Schulze STV</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spare_vote" title="Spare vote">Spare vote</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indirect_single_transferable_voting" title="Indirect single transferable voting">Indirect single transferable voting</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Allocation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Highest_averages_method" title="Highest averages method">Highest averages method</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sainte-Lagu%C3%AB_method" title="Sainte-Laguë method">Webster/Sainte-Laguë</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%27Hondt_method" title="D'Hondt method">D'Hondt</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Largest_remainders_method" class="mw-redirect" title="Largest remainders method">Largest remainders method</a></li></ul> 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