electoral system
method by which voters make a choice between options
approval voting
single-winner electoral system
Bucklin voting
class of electoral systems
direct election
election in which people vote directly for the person that they want elected to a political position
exhaustive ballot
majoritarian voting method
Winner-take-all system
electoral system where the winner takes all seats in a legislature or electoral district, denying representation to any political minorities
quadratic voting
voting system with tokens and quadratically increasing cost
Third Vote
election method in which electors do not cast votes for candidates directly but rather give yes/no answers to policy questions
Electoral system of Hungary
Voting rules used in Hungary
electoral system of New Zealand
system by which New Zealand parliament is elected
staggered elections
elections where only a part of the body is elected at a time
maximal lotteries
probabilistic Condorcet method
STAR voting
electoral system
STAR voting
electoral system
Prussian three-class franchise
Electoral grouping by taxes in Prussia (1848–1918)
indirect election
process in which voters in an election do not choose between candidates for an office, but elect persons who will then make the choice; e.g. in Germany, voters elect Landtag, who elect the state government, which appoints its members to Bundesrat
closed list
variant of party-list voting system
proportional approval voting
voting system
medium-sized electoral district system
electoral system previously used in Japan to select multiple people from one district
mixed electoral system
electoral system that combines a plurality/majoritarian voting system with an element of proportional representation
majority rule
decision rule that selects alternatives which have a majority
party-list proportional representation
family of voting systems
ranked pairs
electoral system
Plurality block voting
type of multi-winner plurality/majority electoral system
cardinal voting system
electoral system which allows the voter to give each candidate an independent rating or grade
election recount
recount of votes, due to close margins or human errors
election in the United States
political elections for public offices in the United States
Adams method
electoral procedure of John Quincy Adams
absentee ballot
ballot cast by someone unable or unwilling to attend their assigned polling station
range voting
voting method where voters give each candidate a numeric score
single non-transferable vote
Multi-member electoral system
alternative vote plus
method of voting proposed for use in the United Kingdom
semi-proportional representation
representation which characterizes multi-winner electoral systems
unified primary
electoral system
electronic voting in Brazil
use of electronic voting machines in elections in Brazil
single-member district
electoral district with one representative in a legislature
anti-plurality voting
positional electoral system
supplementary vote
type of electoral system
multi-member district
electoral method allowing for the election of multiple candidates from one district
first-past-the-post voting
electoral system in which voters indicate the candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins
electoral system of Germany
voting system
Coombs' method
Single-winner ranked voting rule