A joint Politics and Economics series |
Social choice and electoral systems |
---|
Mathematics portal |
The general ticket or party block voting (PBV),[1] is a type of block voting in which voters opt for a party or a team of candidates, and the highest-polling party/team becomes the winner and receives 100% of the seats for this multi-member district. The party block voting is usually applied with more than one multi-member district to prevent one team winning all seats. This system has a winner-take-all nature similar to first-past-the-post voting for single-member districts, which is vulnerable to gerrymandering and majority reversals.
A related system is the majority bonus system, where a block of seats is awarded according to the winner of party-list proportional representation.