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    A plurality vote (in North American English) or relative majority (in British English) describes the circumstance when a party, candidate, or proposition...
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  • other but not by an overall majority Plurality (parliamentary procedure) First-preference plurality, also called first-past-the-post, a system in which...
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    First-preference plurality (FPP)—often shortened simply to plurality—is a single-winner system of positional voting where voters mark one candidate as...
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  • more possible choices. In parliamentary procedure, the term "majority" means "more than half.": 4  Depending on the parliamentary authority used, there may...
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  • Block plurality voting is a winner-take-all method for multi-winner elections. Each voter may cast as many votes as the number of seats to be filled....
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    A parliamentary system, or parliamentary democracy, is a system of democratic government where the head of government (who may also be the head of state)...
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  • Deliberative assemblies – bodies that use parliamentary procedure to arrive at decisions – use several methods of voting on motions (formal proposal by...
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    electoral systems used are: the single member plurality system (first-past-the-post), the multi-member plurality, the single transferable vote, the additional...
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    are several types of plurality electoral systems. Under block voting (also known as multiple non-transferable vote or plurality-at-large), voters have...
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  • other books on American parliamentary procedure, The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure and Riddick's Rules of Procedure, take a similar stance....
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    continue to the second round. In the second round, the candidate with a plurality is elected. Of the 577 constituencies, 539 are in metropolitan France...
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    "standing order 24" (a parliamentary procedure that triggers emergency debates) as a means of gaining control of the parliamentary order paper for the following...
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    by opinion polls (blue being the colour of French conservatives). The procedure by which deputies are elected is a mixture of first past the post and...
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    other countries using the Westminster system. With the plurality voting system used in parliamentary elections tending to provide the governing party with...
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  • legislatures and other bodies. It is one of the basic rules of parliamentary procedure such as Robert's Rules of Order. Mandatory referendums where the...
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  • gain parliamentary representation (which in turn increases the number of wasted votes). Another criticism is that the dominant parties in plurality/majoritarian...
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    election, which saw the addition of 30 seats. Members are elected by simple plurality ("first-past-the-post" system) in each of the country's electoral districts...
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    According to Robert's Rules of Order, a widely used guide to parliamentary procedure, the bases for determining the voting result consists of two elements:...
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    parliament can nominate a candidate; in this round a plurality is sufficient for election. The above procedure was first used to elect Anneli Jäätteenmäki to...
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  • districts. Majoritarian representation does not mean the party with a plurality or majority always receive a majority of seats, which is not always guaranteed...
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