11 Facts About Plurality-at-large voting

Plurality block voting, known as plurality-at-large voting, block vote or block voting is a non-proportional voting system for electing representatives in multi-winner elections.

Party-list version of plurality block Plurality-at-large voting is party block Plurality-at-large voting, called the general ticket, which uses a simple plurality election in multi-member districts.

Block Plurality-at-large voting system has a number of features which can make it unrepresentative of the voters' intentions.

Block Plurality-at-large voting regularly produces complete landslide majorities for the group of candidates with the highest level of support.

Bullet Plurality-at-large voting is a strategy in which a voter only votes for a single candidate in an attempt to stop them being beaten by additional choices.

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Block Plurality-at-large voting was used in the Australian Senate from 1901 to 1948.

Plurality block Plurality-at-large voting is or was used in the election of the Senate of Poland, of the Parliament of Lebanon, the plurality seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council and for the National Assembly of Mauritius.

Form of plurality block Plurality-at-large voting was used for the elections of both houses of Parliament in Belgium before proportional representation was implemented in 1900.

In Hong Kong, block Plurality-at-large voting is used for a tiny proportion of the territory's population to elect the members of the Election Committee, which is responsible for selecting the territory's Chief Executive.

Block Plurality-at-large voting was used in some constituencies for the House of Representatives of Japan in the first six general elections between 1890 and 1898: while the majority of seats was elected by plurality in 214 single-member districts, there were 43 two-member districts that elected their representatives by block Plurality-at-large voting.

Block Plurality-at-large voting is often used in corporate elections to elect the boards of directors of corporations including housing cooperatives, with each shareholder's vote being multiplied by the number of shares they own; however, cumulative Plurality-at-large voting is popular.