transferable vote
Britishnoun
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The measure will also implement a form of ranked choice voting known as single transferable vote.
From Washington Times • Nov. 15, 2022
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
Of course in an election run using the single transferable vote system, first-preference ballots are not everything.
From BBC • May 9, 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 single transferable vote was proposed to attain this result.
From Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government by Ashworth, T. R. (Thomas Ramsden)
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