Contingent vote
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contingent-vote-182-18731722
title:
Contingent vote
text:
The contingent vote is an electoral system used to elect a single representative in which a candidate requires a majority of votes to win. It is a form of preferential voting. The voter ranks the candidates in order of preference, and when the votes are counted, the first preference votes only are counted. If no candidate has a majority of the votes cast, then all but the two leading candidates are eliminated and the votes received by the eliminated candidates are distributed among the two remai
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Single-winner ranked-choice electoral system
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_vote
date created:
2006-05-05T19:06:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T17:54:58Z
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