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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...