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{{Wikipedia}}
A '''single-member district''' or '''single-member constituency''' is an [[w:electoral district|electoral district]] that returns one officeholder to a body with multiple members such as a [[w:legislature|legislature]]. This is also sometimes called '''single-winner voting''' or '''winner takes all'''. The alternatives are [[w:multi-member district|multi-member district]]s, or the election of a body by the whole electorate voting as one constituency.
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* [[Approval voting]]: A valid vote can only give a yes or nothing to a given candidate.
* [[Ordinal
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▲* [[Approval Voting]]: A valid vote can only give a yes or nothing to a given candidate.
▲* [[Ordinal Voting]]: A valid vote can rank candidates 1,2,3... (Tied rankings are permitted in some methods but not others)
=Classification=
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They can be sub-classified by different ways to aggregate the ballots.
==[[Plurality
There is only one way to combine plurality votes.
==[[Approval
Since Approval is the degenerate case of Cardinal Ballots they have the same A sum would give the [[Utilitarian_winner]] while a median would give the majoritarian winner.
==[[Ordinal
[[Borda count]] and [[Instant-runoff voting]] are common aggregation methods
==Popular
* [[Plurality Voting]]: A valid vote can choose only one candidate
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