ranked choice
Ordered ballot system
Ranked choice describes a voting system where voters rank candidates in order of preference rather than selecting just one.
If no candidate wins a majority of first-choice votes, the lowest-ranked candidate is eliminated and those votes redistribute to voters' next choices.
The process repeats until someone achieves a majority.
The city adopted ranked choice voting for mayoral elections.
- preferential votingElectoral system ranking candidates
- majority votingPrevailing by greatest number
- electoral systemRules governing ballot counting
- voter turnoutShare of eligible citizens voting
- voter educationTeaching about electoral processes
voting reform · reform movement · proportional representation · vote counting · voting rights · tactical voting · electoral threshold · districting · coalition governments · fair representation · electoral integrity · secret ballot · absentee voting · ballot box · mail-in voting · polling station · universal suffrage · suffrage
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- votingballot, vote, voters, ballots, voter
- votesvote, ballot, yea, nay, aye
- governance reformsconstitutional convention, constitutional court, amendment process, bill of rights, checks and balances
- political reformpolitical reform, electoral reform, campaign finance, term limits, redistricting
- consensusmajority rule, unanimity, supermajority, plurality, ballot
ranked choicefirst-past-the-post
Most votes wins
winner-take-all · electoral college · bloc voting · two-party system
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