Instant-runoff voting

When the Single Transferable Vote voting system is applied to a single-winner election it is sometimes called instant-runoff voting (IRV), as it is much like holding a series of runoff elections in which the lowest polling candidate is eliminated in each round until someone receives majority vote. IRV is often considered independently of multi-winner Single transferable vote (STV) because it is simpler and is a widely advocated electoral reform in the USA.

External links

• Advocacy organizations
• Instant Runoff Voting at the Center for Voting and Democracy
• instantrunoff.com, by the Midwest Democracy Center http://www.midwestdemocracy.org/
• FIRV (Ferndale, Michigan for Instant Runoff Voting)
• California IRV Coalition
• Coalition for Instant Runoff Voting in Florida
• Advocacy positions
• "Single Transferable Vote Resists Strategic Voting" (PDF file) by John J. Bartholdi, III and James B. Orlin.
• "What is Instant Runoff Voting?" a weblog The Democratic Agenda, January 1, 2005
• Con positions
• "The Problem with Instant Runoff Voting" at electionmethods.org
• Analysis positions
• Nonmonotonicity in AV Article by Eivind Stensholt.
• Comparison with Condorcet Voting by Blake Cretney
• Voting methods: tutorial and essays by James Green-Armytage (for IRV, see e.g. 1 2 3 4 5)
• Examples
• IRV poll for U.S. President, 2004 by the Independence Party of Minnesota
• pSTV -- Open source software for computing IRV and STV
• Australian Electoral Commission http://www.aec.gov.au/