Winner-Take-All: Representation
Representation is the foundation of our democracy. It’s what makes us a republic, and not, say, a direct democracy. Here you’ll see how representation fares across different types of winner-take-all elections.
There are lots of options to improve our democracy. Parsing through them can seem complicated. So we simplified it for you.
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Give people more options that reflect their genuine beliefs by enabling a multi-party democracy |
Electing leaders that more accurately represent their constituencies across race, ethnicity, gender, and class |
Empower communities to come together and build coalitions across geographies |
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Click to view SNTV, Approval, STAR, and Plurality Block Voting
Winner-Take-All electoral systems How well does this system… Give people more options that reflect their genuine beliefs by enabling a multi-party democracy
Electing leaders that more accurately represent their constituencies across race, ethnicity, gender, and class
Empower communities to come together and build coalitions across geographies
Top 4 or 5/SNTV Primary
Top 4 or 5/STV Primary
Approval Voting
STAR Voting
Plurality Block Voting
Block preferential voting
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