[EM] plurality, FPTP and runoff voting

James Green-Armytage jarmyta at antioch-college.edu
Mon Sep 6 21:09:16 PDT 2004


I like the more narrow definition better. I like this definition of
"plurality" from Merriam-Webster:
"an amount or group (as of votes) that is greater than any other amount or
group within a total but that is not more than half". I think that it's
helpful to distinguish "plurality" from "majority". If we just intend
"plurality" to mean majority (which is done sometimes), then there is no
reason to have two separate terms.

my best,
James




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