transferable vote

noun

1. a vote that is transferred to a second candidate indicated by the voter if the first is eliminated from the ballot

Example Sentences

The winner was decided by members in a ballot using a single transferable vote system.

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Northern Ireland uses a type of proportional representation to choose councillors called the single transferable vote.

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The leadership election was decided by the Single Transferable Vote system, with about 50,490 of the SNP's 72,169 casting a ballot - the vast majority of them online.

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Ballots were cast online using the Single Transferable Vote system.

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The ballot to find a replacement for Ms Sturgeon, which uses the single transferable vote system, opened on Monday with the winner to be announced on 27 March.

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