Wasted votes: Difference between revisions

Finally, in an uncontested election where there is only one candidate, that threshold becomes 1 since as long as at-least one person votes for the single candidate, it does not matter how many votes they receive in order to win the election as long as they get at-least 1 vote.

 

For voting methods that pass the participation criterion, one possible way to define the number of wasted votes in an election under that voting method is fallowing: