transferable vote
Britishnoun
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Voting in the SNP leadership election, which is using the single transferable vote system, opened on Monday with the winner to be announced on 27 March.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2023
Voters under the new system will elect three City Council candidates per district using a form of ranked-choice voting known as proportional representation or single transferable vote.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
And it would implement a form of ranked choice voting known as single transferable vote.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
In Northern Ireland, the single transferable vote method is used, where each voter ranks candidates in order of preference, marking 1 beside their most preferred candidate, 2 beside their second choice, and so on.
From The Guardian ● May 7, 2019
The list systems have an advantage over the transferable vote in the simplicity of their solution of the problem of bye-elections.
From Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election by Humphreys, John H.
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