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Runoff voting can also encourage voters to vote for "push-overs", in order to set up a more favorable second-round matchup. |
Runoff voting can also encourage voters to vote for "push-overs", in order to set up a more favorable second-round matchup. |
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== Impact of vote-splitting on two-round systems == |
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A two-round runoff voting system, in practice, may work as a system of [[primary election]]s in countries where there are two major partisan blocks, by choosing for the second round of election a candidate in each block. While this is the usual outcome, different situations may arise in the presence of coalitions fielding multiple candidates, protest votes and third parties. |
A two-round runoff voting system, in practice, may work as a system of [[primary election]]s in countries where there are two major partisan blocks, by choosing for the second round of election a candidate in each block. While this is the usual outcome, different situations may arise in the presence of coalitions fielding multiple candidates, protest votes and third parties. |
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