In this voting system the single winner is the person with the most votes ( plurality ); there is no requirement that the winner gain an absolute majority of votes.

* Charles Johnson ( 1994 – 1998, 2001 – 2002 ) — A four-time Gold Glove Award winner, in 1997 Johnson set a Major League single-season record for catchers by playing in 123 games without committing a single error.

The competitor with the longest single legal throw ( over all rounds ) is the winner ; in the case of a tie the competitors ' second-longest throws are also considered.

Down 3 – 2 in the 7th, Cecil Cooper hit a clutch 2-run single to put the Brewers on top and proved to be a game winner.

PR is often contrasted with single winner electoral systems.

Mixed election systems combine a national or regional proportional system with single seat constituencies elected by a single winner system, attempting to achieve some of the positive features of each.

PR is used by more nations than the single winner system, and it dominates Europe, including Germany, most of northern and eastern Europe, and for European Parliament elections.

Range voting is common for things where there is no single winner: for instance on the Web, sites allow users to rate items such as movies ( Internet Movie Database ), comments, recipes, and many other things.

The two-round system ( also known as the second ballot, runoff voting or ballotage ) is a voting system used to elect a single winner where the voter casts a single vote for their chosen candidate.

In contrast, a voting system which allows only a single winner for each possible legislative seat is sometimes termed a plurality voting system or single-winner voting system and is usually described under the heading of a winner – takes – all arrangement.

It dates its origins to 1970, when Benny Binion invited seven of the best-known poker players to the Horseshoe Casino for a single tournament, with a set start and stop time, and a winner determined by secret ballot.

It is important to note that not all single winner, ranked voting systems are Condorcet methods.

The following year, the Academy instituted a single award called Best Production, and decided retroactively that the award won by Wings had been the equivalent of that award, with the result that Wings is often listed as the winner of a sole Best Picture award for the first year.

This is the only time the Giller has ever resulted in a tie, and Rabinovitch has advised subsequent Giller juries that they must choose a single winner.

While variations in payoff schedules exist, in an NCAA Basketball tournament ( 64 teams, single elimination ) the payoffs could resemble the following schedule: 1 win-0. 25 %, 2 wins-2 %, 3 wins-4 %, 4 wins-8 %, 5 wins-16 %, tournament winner with 6 wins-32 %.

Second place team East Germany also did not have a single gold medal winner ( four silver, four bronze ).

In a voting system that uses a single vote per race, when more than two candidates run, the winner may commonly have less than fifty percent of the vote.

For the IM title they must score at least 80 percent of the winner's points and each time finish in at least fifteenth place twice within five successive WCSCs ; alternatively, winning a single WCSC or scoring as many points as the winner in a single WCSC will earn the IM title.

The plurality election system is used in the Republic of China on Taiwan for executive offices such as county magistrates, mayors, and the president, but not for legislative seats which used the single non-transferable vote system.

Trudeau is credited with introducing Canada's " Multiculturalism Policy " on October 8, 1971 recognizing that while Canada was a country of two official languages, it did not have a single unitary culture but rather recognized the plurality of cultures-" a multicultural policy within a bilingual framework ".

In 1912, for example, Eugene Debs ( a founding member of the IWW ) polled 6 % of the popular vote as the Socialist Party presidential candidate — a significant portion of the popular vote considering that this was 8 years before the adoption of universal suffrage in the U. S. Some political scientists would, in part, attribute the lack of an American labour party to the single member plurality electoral system, which tends to favour a two-party system.

The constitution was further amended in 2005, creating a two-vote electoral system, with single member plurality seats and proportional representative seats, and abolishing the National Assembly, transferring most of its former powers to the Legislative Yuan, and leaving further amendment voting to public referendums.

Sampaio's election marked the first time since the 1974 revolution that a single party held the prime ministership, the presidency, and a plurality of the municipalities.

If, after two votes, no single candidate has received this level of support, in the third and final vote the candidate endorsed by a plurality of votes cast is elected.

Another feature of logograms is that a single logogram may be used by a plurality of languages to represent words with similar meanings.

In previous elections of 1993, 1995, 1999 and 2003 one half of the deputies were elected by a system of proportional representation and one half were elected by plurality in single member districts.

Spurred by his background in the philosophy of language, Berlin argued for a nuanced and subtle understanding of our political terminology, where what was superficially understood as a single concept could mask a plurality of different uses and therefore meanings.

The plurality asserted that the right to abortion is grounded in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the plurality reiterated what the Court had said in Eisenstadt v. Baird: " f the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.

In each constituency, the representative is chosen using a single winner method, typically first-past-the-post ( that is, the candidate with the most votes, by plurality, wins ).

But as a being of necessary existence, God must also be absolutely simple and single ; inasmuch as the conception of a plurality in His essence would, at the same time, nullify the notion of the necessity of His existence.

Of the multiple-winner voting systems, all plurality voting methods are monotonic, such as plurality-at-large voting ( bloc voting ), cumulative voting, and the single non-transferable vote.

The constitution was further amended in 2005, creating a two-vote electoral system, with single member plurality seats and proportional representative seats, and abolishing the National Assembly, transferring most of its former powers to the Legislative Yuan, and leaving further amendment voting to public referendums.

While the Prakriti is a single entity, the Samkhya admits a plurality of the Puruṣas in this world.

The problem of the split on the right was accentuated by Canada's single member plurality electoral system, which resulted in numerous seats being won by the Liberal Party, even when the total number of votes cast for PC and Reform Party candidates was substantially in excess of the total number of votes cast for the Liberal candidate.

Against the universal validity of mathematical results, Spengler asserts that mathemathics is not a single science but a plurality of sciences.

Members of the legislature are elected as independents from single member districts by simple plurality voting.

The commission was set up in December 1997 by the Labour government with the support of the Liberal Democrats, to investigate alternatives to the single member plurality ( or " first past the post ") electoral system used for British general elections.

Vote splitting most easily occurs in plurality voting ( also called first-past-the-post ) in which each voter indicates a single choice and the candidate with the most votes wins, even if the winner does not have majority support.

* 1957 – U. S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957 ; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.

Many countries have growing electoral reform movements, which advocate systems such as approval voting, single transferable vote, instant runoff voting or a Condorcet method ; these methods are also gaining popularity for lesser elections in some countries where more important elections still use more traditional counting methods.

PR is an alternative to voting systems based on single member districts or on bloc voting ; these non-PR systems tend to produce disproportionate outcomes and to have a bias in favour of larger political groups.

Other variations include single non-transferable vote ( SNTV ), cumulative voting and limited voting, all of which offer a form of semi-proportional representation ( SPR ).

This system uses single transferable vote, a ranked voting systems.

This is possible because, rather than voting for only a single candidate, the voter ranks all of the candidates in order of preference.

Some methods, like Approval voting, requests information than can't be unambiguously inferred from a single set of ordinal preferences.

Runoff voting is designed for single seat constituencies.

Managed by Bruce Bochy and aided by the talents of players such as Tony Gwynn, Ken Caminiti, Wally Joyner, Steve Finley, pitcher Andy Ashby and premier closer Trevor Hoffman ( 4 – 2, 1. 48 ERA and 53 saves ) – who tied the then-National League record for saves in a single season and finished second in the Cy Young voting that year – the Padres had their best year in history, finishing 98 – 64 and winning the NL West division crown.

The single transferable vote ( STV ) is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through ranked voting.

Most Condorcet methods have a single round of voting, in which each voter ranks the candidates from top to bottom.