Preferential voting
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Preferential voting or preference voting (PV) may refer to several different types of electoral systems. Many preferential voting systems originated in, or were refined in, national and sub-national elections in Australia, where alternative voting (AV) is widely used.[1]
Types
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- Any electoral system that allows a voter to indicate multiple preferences where preferences marked are weighted or used as contingency votes (any system other than plurality or anti-plurality)
- Ranked voting methods, all election methods that involve ranking candidates in order of preference (United States)
- Instant-runoff voting and single transferable vote, referred to as "preferential voting" in Australia by way of conflation
- Bucklin voting, used in some parts of the United States; similarly conflated during the Progressive EraScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Optional preferential votingScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Open list representation, a form of party-list proportional representation where "preference votes" are used to express preference for individual candidates instead of party lists
See also
References
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