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{{merge|Preferential voting|date=August 2022|target=Ranked voting}}
{{Wikipedia|Ranked voting}}
[[Image:Preferential ballot.svg|thumb|Sample ballot of ranked voting using written numbers]]
'''Ranked voting''' is any election [[voting system]] in which voters use a '''ranked
The similar term "Ranked Choice Voting" (RCV) is used by the US organization [[FairVote]] to refer to the use of ranked ballots with specific counting methods: either [[instant-runoff voting]] for single-winner elections or [[single transferable vote]] for multi-winner elections. In some locations, the term "preferential voting" is used to refer to this combination of ballot type and counting method, while in other locations this term has various more-specialized meanings.<ref name=":02"/>
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There are many types of ranked voting, with several used in governmental elections. [[Instant-runoff voting]] is used in Australian state and federal elections, in Ireland for its presidential elections, and by [[Ranked-choice voting in the United States|some jurisdictions in the United States]], United Kingdom, and New Zealand. A type and classification of ranked voting is called the [[single transferable vote]], which is used for national elections in Ireland and Malta, the Australian Senate, for regional and local elections in Northern Ireland, for all local elections in Scotland, and for some local elections in New Zealand and the United States. [[Borda count]] is used in [[Slovenia]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Toplak|first=Jurij|title=The parliamentary election in Slovenia, October 2004|journal=Electoral Studies|volume=25|issue=4|pages=825–831|doi=10.1016/j.electstud.2005.12.006|year=2006}}</ref> and [[Nauru]]. [[Contingent vote]] and [[Supplementary vote]] are also used in a few locations. [[Condorcet method]]s are used by [[Schulze method#Users|private organizations and minor parties]], but currently are not used in governmental elections.
[[Arrow's impossibility theorem]] and [[Gibbard's theorem]] prove that all voting systems must make trade-offs between desirable properties, such as the preference between two candidates being unaffected by the popularity of a third candidate.<ref name=Mankiw>{{cite book | title=Principles of Microeconomics | publisher=South-Western Cengage Learning | first=Gregory |last=Mankiw | edition=6th| year=2012 | isbn=978-0538453042 |pages=475–479
Recently, an increasing number of authors, including [[David Farrell (political scientist)|David Farrell]], [[Ian McAllister (political scientist)|Ian McAllister]] and [[Jurij Toplak]], see preferentiality as one of the characteristics by which electoral systems can be evaluated.<ref name=":02">{{Cite journal|last=Toplak|first=Jurij|date=2017|title=Preferential Voting: Definition and Classification|journal=Lex Localis – Journal of Local Self-Government|volume=15|issue=4|pages=737–761|doi=10.4335/15.4.737-761(2017)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Farrell|first1=David M.|first2=Ian|last2=McAllister|date=2004-02-20|title=Voter Satisfaction and Electoral Systems: Does Preferential Voting in Candidate-Centered Systems Make A Difference|url=http://repositories.cdlib.org/csd/04-04|language=en}}</ref> According to this view, all electoral methods are preferential, but to different degrees and may even be classified according to their preferentiality.<ref name=":02" /> By this logic, [[cardinal voting]] methods such as [[Score voting]] or [[STAR voting]] are also "preferential".
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== Majority rule as an approximation of utilitarianism ==
It is important to emphasize that majoritarianism and cardinal utilitarianism are not necessarily opposing principles. From a utilitarian perspective, majoritarianism can be considered an [[Majority_criterion#Majority_rule_as_an_approximation_of_utilitarianism|approximation of utilitarian principles]] under certain conservative assumptions. This is analogous to how most systems of ethics can be cast as varieties of utilitarianism with constraints on the utilities being used, even systems that are not utilitarian ''as such''.
== Discussion ==
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