Preferential Voting (PV)

GPTKB entity

Statements (30)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Voting system
gptkbp:advantage Can be complex to count
Encourages majority support
May confuse voters
Reduces vote splitting
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Instant-runoff_voting
Ranked-choice voting
gptkbp:category gptkb:politics
gptkb:Political_science
Electoral systems
gptkbp:feature If no candidate has majority, lowest is eliminated and votes redistributed
Process repeats until a candidate has majority
Voters rank candidates in order of preference
gptkbp:governingBody gptkb:Australian_Electoral_Commission
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Preferential Voting (PV)
gptkbp:introducedIn 19th century
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Single_transferable_vote
gptkb:Borda_count
Plurality voting
gptkbp:usedFor gptkb:Australian_House_of_Representatives_elections
Multi-winner elections
Single-winner elections
Local elections in New Zealand
Presidential elections in Ireland
gptkbp:usedIn gptkb:Australia
gptkb:India
gptkb:Ireland
gptkb:Malta
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:2011_New_Zealand_voting_system_referendum
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7