ranked choice voting
Ordered candidate selection
Ranked choice voting is an electoral system where voters rank candidates by preference rather than selecting just one.
If no candidate wins a majority of first-choice votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated and their votes redistribute to voters' next choices.
This continues until someone achieves a majority.
Maine uses ranked choice voting for federal elections.
Also called instant runoff voting.
- elimination roundsSequential contests removing losers
- fairnessJust and equal treatment
- spoiler effectThird option skews results
- consensus-buildingCreating widespread agreement
- election auditsOfficial review of voting results
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ranked choice votingfirst-past-the-post
Most votes wins
winner-take-all · bloc voting · electoral college · block voting · runoff elections
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