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electoral system
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Voting system
A
voting system
or
electoral system
consists of the set of rules which must be followed for a
vote
to be considered valid, and how votes are counted and aggregated to yield a final result. It is a method by which voters make a choice between candidates, often in an
election
or on a policy
referendum
. Common voting systems are
majority rule
,
proportional representation
or
plurality voting
with a number of variations and methods such as
first-past-the-post
or
preferential voting
. The study of formally defined voting systems is called
social choice theory
or
voting theory
, a subfield of
political science
,
economics
, or
mathematics
.
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