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For example, if from 100 votes that were cast, 45 were for candidate A, 30 were for candidate B and 25 were for candidate C, then candidate A received a plurality of votes but not a majority. In some election contests, the winning candidate or proposition may need only a plurality, depending on the rules of the organization holding the vote. [3]
Under plurality rules, the candidates are not at any point in the election required to have majority support. In an election for a legislative body with single-member seats, each voter in a geographically defined electoral district may vote for one candidate from a list of the candidates who are competing to represent that district. Under the ...
Pie charts plurality (left) and majority (right) Formally, a voting system is called winner-take-all if a majority of voters, by coordinating, can force all seats up for election in their district, denying representation to all minorities. By definition, all single-winner voting systems are winner-take-all.
In the 975 general elections for governor in the U.S. between 1948 and 2011, 90% of winners received more than 50% of the vote, 99% received more than 40%, and all received more than 35%. [52] Duverger's law holds that plurality elections do not generally create a proliferation of minor candidacies with significant vote shares. [52]
To be the majority choice of the electorate, a candidate C must be able to defeat every other candidate simultaneously—i.e. voters who are asked to choose between C and "anyone else" must pick "C" instead of any other candidate. Equivalently, a Condorcet winner can have several different majority coalitions supporting them in each one-on-one ...
The town will now use plurality voting. ... plurality election method from 1871-1935 and 1963-2000. Some council members worry the plurality method might put candidates who didn’t win a majority ...
A Canadian example of such an opportunity is seen in the City of Edmonton (Canada), which went from first-past-the-post voting in 1917 Alberta general election to five-member plurality block voting in 1921 Alberta general election, to five-member single transferable voting in 1926 Alberta general election, then to FPTP again in 1959 Alberta ...
Arkansas was the only state in the 1992 presidential election to be won by a majority of the popular vote; [10] Bill Clinton, its governor at the time, won Arkansas with 53.21 percent of the vote. [11] Since Clinton won re-election in 1996, however, the state has voted consistently for the Republican Party. [12]