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A system that may be considered a variant of the Supplementary Vote has been used to elect the President of [[Sri Lanka]] since 1982. Under the Sri Lankan system voters are permitted to express, from among the list of candidates, not just a first and second but also a third preference.
In the past, the [[Australia|Australian]] state of [[Queensland]] used a variant of the Supplementary Vote, known as the "'''Contingent Vote'''", between [[1892]] and [[1942]]. A form of SV was also briefly used in [[Alabama]] from [[1915]]-[[1931]]. The name of the "Supplementary Vote" was coined in [[1993]] by the [[United Kingdom]] [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]]
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