Voting system - Information from Answers.com
Main article: Single-winner voting systems. Single-winner systems can be classified based on their ballot type.
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Single-member district - Information from Answers.com
This is also sometimes called single-winner voting. Elections for single-member districts are held under a number of voting systems, including plurality (first past ...
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Plurality voting system - Information from Answers.com
The plurality voting system is a single-winner voting system often used to elect executive officers or to elect members of a legislative assembly which is based on ...
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Condorcet method - Information from Answers.com
It is important to note that not all single winner, preferential voting systems are Condorcet methods. For example, instant-runoff voting and the Borda count do not ...
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Borda count - Information from Answers.com
The Nanson and Baldwin methods are single-winner voting systems that combine elements of the Borda count and instant-runoff voting. Unlike the Borda count, ...
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Monotonicity criterion - Information from Answers.com
The monotonicity criterion is a voting system criterion used to analyze both single and multiple winner voting systems. A voting system is monotonic if it satisfies ...
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Instant-runoff voting - Information from Answers.com
Instant-runoff voting (IRV), also known as preferential voting, the alternative vote and ranked choice voting, is a voting system used to elect one winner. Voters ...
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Approval voting - Information from Answers.com
Most of the mathematical criteria by which voting ... a single candidate higher than all other candidates, does ... Monotonicity criterion—Is it impossible to cause a winning candidate to lose ...
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Majority criterion - Information from Answers.com
The majority criterion is a single-winner voting system criterion, used to compare such systems. The criterion states that "if one candidate is preferred by a ...
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