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Strategic or tactical voting is voting in consideration of possible ballots cast by other voters in order to maximize one's satisfaction with the election's results. [1]
Because, like all other forms of STV, CPO-STV is a system of proportional representation, it creates far less potential for tactical voting than do single-winner systems such as the first-past-the-post system and instant-runoff voting. However, all forms of STV are vulnerable to some degree of tactical voting because they lack monotonicity.
Runoff voting is intended to reduce the potential for eliminating "wasted" votes by tactical voting. Under the plurality voting system (also known as first past the post), voters are encouraged to vote tactically, by voting for only one of the two leading candidates, because a vote for any other candidate will not affect the result. Under ...
The list ballots use a double (triple) simultaneous vote with the presidential and Senate election, [10] which is presumed to decrease tactical manipulation despite the separate candidate and list vote [citation needed]. The latest elections had a highly proportional result.
Schulze STV is a proposed multi-winner ranked voting system designed to achieve proportional representation. [1] [2] It was invented by Markus Schulze, who developed the Schulze method for resolving ties using a Condorcet method.
Widespread tactical voting would see the Tories return their worst election result in more than a century, shock new statistics reveal.. As Rishi Sunak’s party lags Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour ...
Best For Britain is recommending people co-ordinate to vote Labour in Richmond and Northallerton to unseat the Prime Minister. Tactical voting campaign eyes ‘heaviest possible defeat’ for the ...
Proponents of other voting methods in single-member districts argue that these would reduce the need for tactical voting and reduce the spoiler effect. Examples include preferential voting systems, such as instant runoff voting, as well as the two-round system of runoffs and less tested methods such as approval voting and Condorcet methods.