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.
The approval voting system is a voting method where voters are allowed to select any number of candidates they approve of, rather than just one. The candidate with the highest number of approvals wins the election. It is a simple and straightforward system that promotes more voter choice and can help prevent the spoiler effect seen in other voting methods.
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.
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.
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.
Preferential It is a system where you mark your preference by puting the numbers 1, 2, 3, and so on behind the names of the candidates. if the candidate you prefer does not get enough votes to win a seat your vote goes to the next candidate and so on.
In preference voting, voters rank candidates in order of preference. The votes are then counted, and if no candidate receives an outright majority, the candidate with the fewest first-place votes is eliminated. The eliminated candidate's votes are then redistributed to the remaining candidates based on the next preference of the voters who ranked the eliminated candidate first. This process continues until one candidate receives a majority of the votes and is declared the winner.
The candidate gets the number of delegates that matches the share of the votes.