Ranked voting: Difference between revisions

'''Ranked voting''' is any election [[voting system]] in which voters use a '''ranked (or preferential) ballot''' to [[ranking|rank]] choices in a sequence on the [[Level of measurement#Ordinal scale|ordinal scale]]: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. There are multiple ways in which the rankings can be counted to determine which candidate (or candidates) is (or are) elected (and different methods may choose different winners from the same set of ballots). The other major branch of voting systems is [[cardinal voting]], where candidates are independently rated, rather than ranked.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Liberalism against populism: a confrontation between the theory of democracy and the theory of social choice|last=Riker|first=William Harrison|date=1982|publisher=Waveland Pr|isbn=0881333670|location=|pages=29–30|oclc=316034736|quote=''Ordinal utility'' is a measure of preferences in terms of rank orders—that is, first, second, etc. ... ''Cardinal utility'' is a measure of preferences on a scale of cardinal numbers, such as the scale from zero to one or the scale from one to ten.}}</ref>