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A '''split vote''', or vote splitting, occurs in an [[election]] when the existence of two or more [[candidate]]s that represent relatively similar viewpoints among voters reduces the [[vote|votes]] received by each of them, reducing the chances of any one of them winning against another candidate, who represents a significantly different viewpoint. These can lead to a candidate that represents the viewpoints of a minority of voters winning.
Vote splitting as an issue is usually confined to [[first-past-the-post]] voting systems such as those used by the
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Vote-splitting is a special case of [[strategic nomination]].
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