* Plurality voting system

The terms Highest vote, Majority vote and Plurality voting are often confused.

Plurality voting is used for local and / or national elections in 43 of the 193 countries of the United Nations, as well as in the Republic of China ( Taiwan ).

Plurality voting is particularly prevalent in the United Kingdom and former British colonies, including the United States, Canada and India.

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For example, instant runoff voting is considered to have less frequent IIA failure than First Past the Post ( also known as Plurality Rule ).

* Single Member Plurality, a single-winner electoral voting system

" Plurality voting systems " do not require the winner to achieve a vote majority, or more than fifty percent of the total votes cast.

Two failed attempts — 1959 and 1968 — have been made to change to the United Kingdom's Plurality voting system (' First-past-the-post ') electoral system.

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Example: With Plurality voting, an old but common way to pick the winner, the candidate with the most votes wins, even if the candidate does not have a majority of the votes.

* Plurality voting scaring voters from voting for any candidate other than the lesser of evils, who is reported to have a chance of winning

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* Plurality, a voting requirement of more ballots cast for a proposition than for any other option

As the star of a doctor skit, in a citizen's driven group, he prescribes a cure for some of the failings of the countries current Single Member Plurality ( SMP ) voting system ( sometimes called First Past the Post, FPTP ).

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Part of a page from Duns Scotus ' book Ordinatio: " Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate ", i. e., " Plurality is not to be posited without necessity "

Plurality is a linguistic universal, represented variously among the languages as a separate word ( free morpheme ), an affix ( bound morpheme ), or by other morphological indications such as stress or implicit markers / context.

Plurality makes the options with the most votes the winner, regardless of whether the fifty percent threshold is passed.

' Plurality ' means that which is divisible potentially into non-continuous parts, magnitude that which is divisible into continuous parts ; of magnitude, that which is continuous in one dimension is length ; in two breadth, in three depth.

Socrates replies that he has no doubt about the existence of mathematical, ethical and aesthetic Forms ( e. g., Unity, Plurality, Goodness, Beauty ), but is unsure of Forms of Man, Fire and Water ; he is almost certain, though admits to some reservations, that undignified objects like hair, mud and dirt do not have Forms.

The current electoral system in BC is Single Member Plurality, otherwise known as First Past The Post ( FPTP ).

When winning votes is used, Minimax also satisfies the Plurality criterion.

On the Plurality of Worlds ( 1986 ) is a book by the philosopher David Lewis that defends the thesis of modal realism.

Plurality criterion is a voting system criterion devised by Douglas R. Woodall for ranked voting methods with incomplete ballots.

Among Condorcet methods which permit truncation, whether the Plurality criterion is satisfied depends often on the measure of defeat strength.

When winning votes is used as the measure of defeat strength in methods such as the Schulze method, Ranked Pairs, or Minimax, Plurality is satisfied.

Plurality is failed when margins is used.

When truncation is permitted under Borda count, Plurality is satisfied when no points are scored to truncated candidates, and ranked candidates receive no fewer votes than if the truncated candidates had been ranked.

Among Whewell's other works — too numerous to mention — were popular writings such as the third Bridgewater Treatise Astronomy and General Physics considered with reference to Natural Theology ( 1833 ), and the essay, Of the Plurality of Worlds ( 1853 ), in which he argued against the probability of life on other planets, and also the Platonic Dialogues for English Readers ( 1850 – 1861 ), the Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England ( 1852 ), the essay, Of a Liberal Education in General, with particular reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge ( 1845 ), the important edition and abridged translation of Hugo Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis ( 1853 ), and the edition of the Mathematical Works of Isaac Barrow ( 1860 ).

Plurality races, also known as First past the post, tend to cause consolidation among political parties for this reason.

( Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, ( 1976 – 1980 ), 6: 302-17 ; see also " The Christian Godhead -- Plurality of Gods ", History of the Church, 6: 473-79.

Thus one and the same thing can be both like and unlike, or one and many, by participating in the Forms of Likeness and Unlikeness, of Unity and Plurality ; I am one man, and as such partake of the Form of Unity, but I also have many parts and in this respect I partake of the Form of Plurality.

** Single-Member District Plurality, also known as First Past the Post ( FPTP ).

: Winner-take-all connotes also the principle of the Plurality voting system.

Minimax using pairwise opposition also fails Plurality.