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• plurality vote — The largest vote received as between candidates for an office at an election; the winning vote, except where a majority of votes cast is required by constitutional provision or statute. 26 Am J2d Elect § 309 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Plurality (voting) — In voting, a plurality vote is the largest number of votes to be received by any candidate or proposition when three or more choices are possible. With only 2 choices the winner would have the majority. The candidate or proposition receiving the… …   Wikipedia

• Vote splitting — is an electoral effect in which the distribution of votes among multiple similar candidates reduces the chance of winning for any of the similar candidates, and increases the chance of winning for a dissimilar candidate.Vote splitting most easily …   Wikipedia

• Plurality voting system — The plurality voting system is a single winner voting system often used to elect executive officers or to elect members of a legislative assembly which is based on single member constituencies.The most common system, used in Canada, India, the UK …   Wikipedia

• Plurality-at-large voting — Part of the Politics series Electoral methods Single winner …   Wikipedia

• plurality system — Electoral process in which the candidate who polls more votes than any other candidate is elected. It is distinguished from the majority system, in which, to win, a candidate must receive more votes than all other candidates combined. It is the… …   Universalium

• vote of the people — A plurality or majority vote, as the case may be, of the qualified electors. In statutes providing for the issuance of bonds when authorized by a vote of the people, the words authorized by the vote can but mean by a majority, as there are but… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• plurality — noun a) The state of being plural. To repeal the tax (Question I), a 50 per cent majority vote is required. To keep the tax in its 1976 form (Question III), only a plurality of votes is required. b) A state of being numerous. Trumans total vote… …   Wiktionary

• Plurality voting system — Im deutschen Sprachgebrauch wird der Begriff Mehrheitswahl in zweifachem Sinne verwendet. Er bezeichnet: ein Auswahlverfahren zur Auswahl einer bestimmten Alternative aus einer vorgegebenen Menge durch eine Gruppe von Wählern; ein Verfahren zur… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• plurality — plu·ral·i·ty || ‚plÊŠ rælÉ™tɪ n. numerousness, variability; majority of voices in a vote …   English contemporary dictionary

• Contingent vote — A flow chart for Contingent vote …   Wikipedia