plurality voting
The Electoral college is the Presidential voting system. The electoral college gives each state a certain amount of electoral votes. If a presidential candidate wins the majority of the citizens votes, he will also get the electoral vote.
A candidate must receive a majority of votes to win an election. The specific number of votes needed varies depending on the election and the voting system in place. In most cases, it is the candidate who receives more than 50% of the votes cast who wins.
Approval voting is a system used for election where there needs to be a single winner. Voters are asked whether they approve of a candidate and may answer yes or no. Voters may vote for as many candidates as they wish. The candidate with the most yes votes at the end of ballot wins.
In a single-member district plurality voting system, a candidate needs to receive more votes than any other candidate to win, but not necessarily a majority of the votes (over 50%). This means that a candidate can win with just the highest number of votes, even if that number is less than half of the total votes cast. This system often leads to situations where a candidate can win despite having less overall support than multiple opponents.
In a single-member district voting electoral system, a candidate typically needs to secure a plurality of the votes to win the election, meaning they must receive more votes than any other candidate, but not necessarily a majority (over 50%). This system is designed to determine a single representative for each electoral district. Voter turnout and the distribution of votes among candidates are crucial factors in this context.
Approval voting allows voters to vote for as many candidates as they wish, while limiting their votes to any individual candidate to one. Voting by approval winners are chosen by the highest number of votes.
A system in which only one candidate is elected from each electoral district is called a "single-member district" system. This electoral method is commonly used in plurality voting systems, where the candidate receiving the most votes wins. It often leads to a "winner-takes-all" outcome, which can contribute to a two-party system in many countries.
One example of majority rule is the democratic voting system. The candidate with the most votes gets the delegates in the state and wins the election.
The United States has a first-past-the-post voting system, also known as a plurality system. In this system, voters select one candidate and the candidate with the most votes wins, regardless of whether they have a majority or not. This system is used in most elections, including those for the President and members of Congress.
Talking about elections to the federal parliament, for elections in the lower house we have preferential voting. What this means basically is that we vote for EVERY candidate in order of preference, if when the votes are counted no candidate has a majority, the candidate with the lowest number of votes is knocked out, and their votes redistributed based on who those people ranked as no#2, this process goes on until 1 candidate has a majority (50% +1) In the upper house we use proportional representation, that voting system is even more complicated, but the result is that the %age of the vote translates to the same %age of seats, so if the Liberal Party got 35% of the vote, they will end up with 35% of the seats.
The Electoral college system
One example of majority rule is the democratic voting system. The candidate with the most votes gets the delegates in the state and wins the election.