Here’s how the math breaks down: The Speaker is elected by a majority — not a plurality — of House members voting for a candidate by name. On the first day of the new Congress on Friday ...

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If one candidate has a majority of first-choice votes after that tally ... voters have for candidates than is possible in our … plurality system,” says Charles Stewart, founding director ...

Nate Atkinson and Ezra Friedman have posted this paper on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: Should states retain plurality rule or adopt a different voting method? We study the class of sequential plurality ...

Maine Republicans are renewing a push to repeal the state's ranked choice voting law, arguing that the method of deciding ...

To put the question more precisely: How often would a candidate who can win an election with a plurality (not a majority) of the vote fail to win a head-to-head matchup with the second-place ...

SMITH, of Tennessee, resulted in the election of Mr. BANKS, of Massachusetts, on the one hundred and thirty-third ballot, by a plurality of five less than a majority of all the votes cast.

If no candidate wins a majority outright (an increasingly ... and replacing our current plurality voting with RCV will facilitate the emergence of third parties by eliminating wasted votes or ...

Ironically, the 2006 elections resulted in a Liberal government coming to power with a majority of seats despite having won fewer votes province-wide than the Conservatives. There are several direct ...