What is Electoral system?
{{merge|Voting system}} An '''electoral system''' or '''voting system''' is a set of rules that determine how [[Election|elections]] and [[Referendum|referendums]] are run and how their results are decided. They are used in politics to elect national and local [[Government|governments]]. Elections also happen in businesses, and other sorts of organisations. These rules usually govern [[voting]], when elections happen, who can [[vote]], who can be a [[candidate]], how the votes are counted, how votes decide the election, limits on [[campaign]] spending, and other things that can affect the result. There are many different electoral systems. Sometimes different systems are used in different sorts of elections in the same country. Voters may vote directly for candidates or their votes may elect an [[electoral college]] where their [[Representative democracy|representatives]] may run a further election. Areas may be divided into [[Constituency|constituencies]] with one or more representatives in each. Voters may vote directly for individual candidates or for a list of candidates. The most common systems are [[first-past-the-post voting]], multiple non-transferable vote, the two-round (runoff) system, party-list [[proportional representation]] and ranked or preferential voting as used in single-winner Instant-runoff voting or multi-winner [[Single transferable vote|Single transferable voting]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Electoral Systems —|url=https://aceproject.org/ace-en/topics/es/default|access-date=2023-04-11|website=aceproject.org}}</ref> Different [[voting systems]] may effect the results, and they may be changed to benefit those in power. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Elections]]