Directory of Single Transferable Vote Resources

Home > Society > Politics > Campaigns and Elections > Voting Systems > Single Transferable Vote

The Single Transferable Vote (STV) system is a form of preferential voting which aims to achieve proportional representation in multiple-candidate elections (as for parliaments), and to mitigate against tactical spoiler effects in single candidate elections (as for constituencies). Instant Runoff Voting, also known as the Hare system, Alternative Vote, or the Clark system, is a variant of STV. In an STV system, voters cast a single vote but rank candidates or parties in order of preference. Their votes may then be reassigned based on whether or not their first preference achieves a certain quota of votes.

Resources in This Category

• Ferndale Residents for Instant Runoff Voting (F-IRV)

  http://www.firv.org/
  Coalition from Ferndale, Michigan working to generate a referendum for November 2004 election that will allow Ferndale voters to implement Instant Runoff Voting

• Instant Runoff Mailing List

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/instantrunoff/
  A national discussion for advocates of Instant Runoff Voting/Single Transferable Vote

• InstantRunoff.com

  http://instantrunoff.com/
  Advocates Instant Runoff Voting, i.e. ranking candidates on election ballots, with the goal of eliminating the 'wasted' vote or 'spoiler' candidacy.

• OpenSTV

  http://www.openstv.org/
  Open source software for implementing instant runoff voting, the single transferable vote, and other voting systems.

• STV Tally Analogy

  http://accuratedemocracy.com/d_stv1d.htm
  Concise, visual description of Single Transferrable Vote with explanatory diagrams

• stv-voting mailing list

  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/stv-voting/
  List for discussing the Single Transferable Vote voting system

• University of Malta: Malta Elections

  http://www.um.edu.mt/projects/maltaelections
  Elections in Malta under the single-transferable-vote (STV) system, 1921 - 1996.

 

Home > Society > Politics > Campaigns and Elections > Voting Systems > Single Transferable Vote

 

---

 

Thanks to DMOZ, which built a great web directory for nearly two decades and freely shared it with the web. About us