Block voting

Block voting or Bloc voting may refer to:

  • Plurality block voting, in an election with n winners, each voter may choose up to n candidates; the n candidates with most votes win
  • Majority block voting, also known as majority-at-large voting or the two-round version of plurality block voting
  • Preferential block voting, a preferential version of majority block voting
  • Block approval voting, in an election with n winners, each voter may any number of candidates and the candidates with most votes win
  • Partial block voting, also known as limited voting, in an election with n winners, each voter may choose up to m (m<n) candidates; the n candidates with most votes win
  • Party block voting, also known as the general ticket, in an election where each voter may vote for a party and that party wins all seats
  • Voting bloc, group of voters who co-ordinate their voting behaviour
  • Block vote, exercised by Labour Party (UK) affiliated trade unions at party conferences until 1995

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