<div dir="ltr">Political scientist here. Please don't pelt me with rotten fruit.<div><br></div><div>We generally use three categories to differentiate electoral systems. The number of categories depends on who's writing, but everyone pretty much agrees on three: district magnitude (1 in your case), ballot type (categorical in your case), and then allocation rule (plurality in your case).</div><div><br></div><div>Shugart, Latner, and I argued<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://protectdemocracy.org/work/toward-a-different-kind-of-party-government/" target="_blank">here</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>that 'FPFP' did not really exist in the US due to the widespread use of primaries, some of which have been replaced with nonpartisan winnowing rounds (AK, CA, etc). FWIW, Burnett and Kogan (2015) <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2519723">noted</a> this elision in their conclusion nearly a decade ago.</div><div><br></div><div>Other examples of plurality allocation with categorical ballots <i>and multi-seat districts</i>:</div><div>- multiple non-transferable vote (incl. as limited voting)</div><div>- single non-transferable vote (incl. as limited voting)</div><div>- cumulative voting</div><div>- etc...</div><div><br></div><div>I generally stay quiet, but this issue is fundamental enough, I think, to merit the above contribution. FPTP often comes across as an imaginary target.</div><div><br></div><div>A purist might insist on calling IRV 'plurality' as well, so long as it does not require the voter to rank all choices.</div><div><br></div><div>Jack</div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 3:10 PM Closed Limelike Curves <<a href="mailto:closed.limelike.curves@gmail.com">closed.limelike.curves@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I just need to double-check I haven't gone completely insane and both of these terms really are synonyms. Comments on the talk page would be helpful:<div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Plurality_voting#Merge_from_FPTP" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Plurality_voting#Merge_from_FPTP</a><br></div></div></div>
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