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.

See also

• Single Transferable Vote
• List of democracy and elections-related topics
• Table of voting systems by nation
• Australian electoral system
• Electoral systems of the Australian states and territories
• Voting system - many other ways of voting
• Runoff voting
• First Past the Post electoral system
• Approval voting
• Condorcet method
• Borda count
• Papua New Guinea uses an IRV variant known as Limited Preferential Vote
• IRV - Sample election - favorite season