ranked choice
English
A ranked-choice ballot
Noun
ranked choice (uncountable)
- (politics, often attributively) Any voting system in which voters rank their candidates (or options) in order of preference on their ballots.
- Synonyms: preferential voting, ranked voting
- ranked-choice ballot; ranked-choice voting
- 2010 November 11, Zusha Elinson, Gerry Shih, “The Winning Strategy in Oakland: Concentrate on Being 2nd or 3rd Choice”, in The New York Times:
- The results — on the 31-column spreadsheet that Ms. Quan held in her hands — testified to the power of finishing second in a ranked-choice election. […] Campaign strategists said Ms. Quan had taken advantage of a ranked-choice system that was used in Oakland for the first time.
- 2022 September 1, Adam Serwer, “Republicans Have Only Themselves to Blame for Their Alaskan Defeat”, in The Atlantic:
- The election was the first in Alaska to utilize ranked-choice voting, a system adopted by the state’s voters in 2020. […] Ranked choice is more efficient than holding a runoff election, and its backers insist that it offers a better reflection of voters’ preferences.
Hyponyms
- alternative vote
- Borda count
- Copeland's method
- instant-runoff voting
- positional voting
- Schulze method
- single transferable vote
Translations
any voting system in which voters rank their candidates (or options) in order of preference on their ballots
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