Alternative Vote

British  

noun

1.  AV.  (modifier) of or relating to a system of voting in which voters list the candidates in order of preference. If no candidate obtains more than 50% of first-preference votes, the votes for the bottom candidate are redistributed according to the voters' next preference See proportional representation

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Example Sentences

A referendum on the voting system at general elections: whether to keep what is known as First Past The Post, or switch to what is called the Alternative Vote.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2021

But what might have happened if the UK had backed the Alternative Vote at general elections?

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2021

Given the 2011 Alternative Vote referendum was a UK-wide event, it is the closest we are likely to come to the scale of organisation required in a general election.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2013

Ballots cast in the Alternative Vote Referendum will be counted at 1600 BST.

From BBC • May 6, 2011

We will whip both Parliamentary parties in both Houses to support a simple majority referendum on the Alternative Vote, without prejudice to the positions parties will take during such a referendum.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2010