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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ALTERNATIVE VOTE

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Alternative Vote is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ALTERNATIVE VOTE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Instant-runoff voting

Instant-runoff voting, alternative vote, transferable vote, ranked choice voting, or preferential voting is an electoral system used to elect a single winner from a field of more than two candidates. It is a preferential voting system in which voters rank the candidates in order of preference rather than voting for a single candidate. Ballots are initially distributed based on each elector's first preference. If a candidate secures more than half of votes cast, that candidate wins. Otherwise, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. Ballots assigned to the eliminated candidate are recounted and assigned to those of the remaining candidates who rank next in order of preference on each ballot. This process continues until one candidate wins by obtaining more than half the votes. IRV has the effect of avoiding split votes and the need for electors to vote "strategically" for candidates who are not their first choice. For example; suppose there are two similar party candidates A & B, and a third opposing candidate C, with raw popularity of 35%, 25% and 40% respectively.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ALTERNATIVE VOTE

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Altesse
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Althing
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Althorp House
although
Althusser

WORDS THAT END LIKE ALTERNATIVE VOTE

cote
coyote
denote
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Grote
keynote
Lanzarote
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Post-it Note
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Single Transferable Vote
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vote
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Synonyms and antonyms of Alternative Vote in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Alternative Vote» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ALTERNATIVE VOTE

Find out the translation of Alternative Vote to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Alternative Vote from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Alternative Vote» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

另类投票
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Voto Alternativo
570 millions of speakers

English

Alternative Vote
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वैकल्पिक वोट
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

أصوات بديلة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Альтернативная Голосов
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Vote alternativa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিকল্প ভোট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Alternative Vote
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Undi Alternatif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Alternative Vote
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

オルタナティブ投票
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

대체 투표
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Voting Alternatif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Vote thay thế
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மாற்று வாக்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पर्यायी मत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Alternatif Oy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Vota Alternative
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Alternatywne Głosuj
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Альтернативна Голосів
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Vot alternative
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Εναλλακτική Ψηφοφορία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

alternatiewe Stem
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

alternative Vote
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

alternativ Stem
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ALTERNATIVE VOTE»

The term «Alternative Vote» is normally little used and occupies the 125.446 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ALTERNATIVE VOTE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Alternative Vote

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALTERNATIVE VOTE»

Discover the use of Alternative Vote in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Alternative Vote and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Collective Decisions and Voting: The Potential for Public Choice
The alternative vote possesses homogeneity because repeating a sequence of rankings k times multiplies all alternative vote scores at every stage of the count by a factor of k. The reason that the alternative vote possesses independence of ...
Nicolaus Tideman, 2006
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Democracy and Elections: Electoral Systems and Their ...
The alternative vote - used only in Australia - is an attempt to overcome one principal objection to the simple plurality system. In the alternative vote system, the winning candidate in a constituency must secure an absolute majority, that is. at ...
Vernon Bogdanor, David Butler, 1983
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Vision for a Canada Strong and Free
Mike Harris, Preston Manning. Alternative vote The alternative vote, or preferential ballot, has been used in Australia to elect members of the House of Representatives (their equivalent of the Canadian House of Commons) since 1918.
Mike Harris, Preston Manning, 2007
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Consociational Theory: McGarry and O’Leary and the Northern ...
Non-proportional systems If we leave aside consociational priorities and focus instead on trying to boost the position of the more moderate parties, another system may be considered: the alternative vote, which McGarry and O'Leary discuss at ...
Rupert Taylor, 2009
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Electoral Systems: Paradoxes, Assumptions, and Procedures
Except for being vulnerable to cyclical majorities and to strategic voting, the Alternative Vote procedure is vulnerable to the Condorcet winner, lack of monotonicity, reinforcement, no-show, twin, truncation, preference inversion, and SCC ...
Dan S. Felsenthal, Moshé Machover, 2012
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Political Parties and Democracy
An expert of the stature of Richard Rose assimilates and indeed subordinates the double ballot to the alternative vote.25 His argument is as follows: The two-ballot plurality systems used in France's Fifth Republic is a variant of the alternative ...
Larry Diamond, Richard Gunther, 2001
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The Encyclopedia of Public Choice
For example, had the plurality rules in each state been replaced with the alternative vote (relabeled by its advocates in the U.S. as the instant runoff) then, ceteris paribus, we would have had a different outcome in the 2000 U.S. presidential ...
Charles Rowley, Friedrich Schneider, 2005
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Strengthening Canadian Democracy
... Party, which party leaders gave them after the election of 1999, to a coalition of the People's Party and the Social Democrats? We will never know 99 because the people never got to vote on that choice,. 3. The Alternative Vote Tom Flanagan.
Paul Howe, Richard Johnston, André Blais, 2005
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Political Participation of Minorities: A Commentary on ...
For this reason some simplify this fourfold classification by formulas into two types ; namely, majoritarian systems (including plurality, double-ballot majoritarian, parallel systems and the alternative vote) are distinguished from proportional ...
Marc Weller, Katherine Nobbs, 2010
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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill: third ...
There was a discussion about how we explain what first past the post is and what sort of alternative vote is being proposed. In particular, given that that referendum will fall on the same day that the citizens of Wales go to the polling station to ...
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALTERNATIVE VOTE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Alternative Vote is used in the context of the following news items.
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Unite backs left wing fireband MP Jeremy Corbyn to be Labour leader
... that members should support Mr Corbyn, followed by Mr Burnham as their first and second preferences in the alternative vote system. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Martyn Brown: Voting to be heard—or not (Part 1)
Some other plurality/majority model perhaps? A Block Vote, Alternative Vote, or Two Round system? Or better yet, some form of proportional ... «Straight.com, Jun 15»
3
The whole voting system for the Scottish Parliament should be …
That way the proportionality wanted by the voters would be preserved and not distorted by a single-seat by-election using the Alternative Vote. «Herald Scotland, Jun 15»
4
How Jeremy Corbyn could change the electoral arithmetic
Thanks to the 'Alternative Vote' (AV) system, the abolition of the Electoral College, and the new 'registered supporter' rules, Corbyn could ... «Left Foot Forward, Jun 15»
5
Let us lose the list system
What is effectively the Alternative Vote is an unsatisfactory method of filling vacancies in multi-member council wards where the original ... «Herald Scotland, Jun 15»
6
Five minutes with Gideon Skinner: “The trend in the polling is clearly …
It was obviously very high in Scotland during the independence referendum in 2014, but the turnout in the Alternative Vote referendum was ... «EUROPP - European Politics and Policy, Jun 15»
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Neil Carmichael, Stroud MP: Plans for year of group on education
The alternative vote system is used with the ballot papers consisting of a bundle of 12 papers with two to five candidates for each vacancy. «Stroud News and Journal, Jun 15»
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Andrew Whitaker: Lib Dems count cost of coalition
... after Clegg allowed himself to be outfoxed by Cameron into agreeing to a referendum on a system – the alternative vote (AV), a very watered ... «Scotsman, Jun 15»
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Alternative vote is best way forward
If every MP is elected by more than 50 per cent of the vote – which the alternative vote would ensure – there is no need for so-called ... «Stroud News and Journal, Jun 15»
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Would a Fairer Voting System Be a Better System?
If, despite the clear outcome of the Alternative Vote referendum four years ago, we are to reopen a national conversation about the way we ... «Huffington Post UK, Jun 15»

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