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Negative vote weight

Index Negative vote weight

Negative vote weight (also known as inverse success value) refers to an effect that occurs in certain elections where votes can have the opposite effect of what the voter intended. [1]

10 relations: Austria, Elections in Romania, Elections in the Czech Republic, Federal Constitutional Court, German federal election, 2009, Mixed-member proportional representation, Monotonicity criterion, Overhang seat, Participation criterion, Popular referendum.

Austria

Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.

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Elections in Romania

Romania elects on a national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature.

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Elections in the Czech Republic

The Czech Republic elects a legislature at a national level.

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Federal Constitutional Court

The Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht; abbreviated: BVerfG) is the supreme constitutional court for the Federal Republic of Germany, established by the constitution or Basic Law of Germany.

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German federal election, 2009

Federal elections took place on 27 September 2009 to elect the members of the 17th Bundestag (parliament) of Germany.

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Mixed-member proportional representation

Mixed-member proportional (MMP) representation is a mixed electoral system in which voters get two votes: one to decide the representative for their single-seat constituency, and one for a political party.

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Monotonicity criterion

The monotonicity criterion is a voting system criterion used to evaluate both single and multiple winner ranked voting systems.

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Overhang seat

Overhang seats can arise in elections under the traditional (i.e. as it originated in Germany) mixed member proportional (MMP) system, when a party is entitled to fewer seats as a result of party votes than it has won constituencies.

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Participation criterion

The participation criterion is a voting system criterion.

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Popular referendum

A popular referendum (also known, depending on jurisdiction, as citizens' veto, people's veto, veto referendum, citizen referendum, abrogative referendum, rejective referendum, suspensive referendum or statute referendum) Maija Setälä, is a type of a referendum that provides a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote (plebiscite) on an existing statute, constitutional amendment, charter amendment or ordinance, or, in its minimal form, to simply oblige the executive or legislative bodies to consider the subject by submitting it to the order of the day.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_vote_weight

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