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Vote splitting

Index Vote splitting

Vote splitting is an electoral effect in which the distribution of votes among multiple similar candidates reduces the chance of winning for any of the similar candidates, and increases the chance of winning for a dissimilar candidate. [1]

74 relations: Al Gore, American Idol, Approval voting, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bloc Québécois, California gubernatorial recall election, Canada, Canadian Alliance, Chen Shui-bian, Condorcet method, Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party of Canada, Cruz Bustamante, Democratic Progressive Party, Devon and East Plymouth (European Parliament constituency), Egyptian presidential election, 2012, Election, Election threshold, Electoral system, European Parliament election, 1994 (United Kingdom), Exhaustive ballot, Fernando Poe Jr., First-past-the-post voting, Fort William, Ontario, French presidential election, 2002, George W. Bush, Germany, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Hawaii's 1st congressional district special election, 2010, Hello Garci scandal, Independence of clones criterion, Independence of irrelevant alternatives, Instant-runoff voting, Jacques Chirac, James Soong, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Kuomintang, Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino, Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Party of Canada, Lien Chan, Lionel Jospin, National Rally (France), New Democratic Party, New Zealand, Ontario, Opposition (politics), Panfilo Lacson, Party-list proportional representation, Philippine presidential election, 2004, ..., Plurality voting, Port Arthur, Ontario, Primary election, Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Quebec, Rally for the Republic, Ralph Nader, Ranked voting, Reform Party of Canada, Registration of Political Parties Act 1998, Richard Huggett, Roh Tae-woo, Socialist Party (France), South Korean presidential election, 1987, Spoiler effect, Strategic nomination, Tactical voting, Taiwan presidential election, 2000, Thunder Bay, Tom McClintock, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, United States presidential election, 2000. Expand index (24 more) »

Al Gore

Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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American Idol

American Idol is an American singing competition television series created by Simon Fuller, produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment, and distributed by FremantleMedia North America.

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Approval voting

Approval voting is a single-winner electoral system where each voter may select ("approve") any number of candidates.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-American actor, filmmaker, businessman, investor, author, philanthropist, activist, politician, and former professional bodybuilder and powerlifter.

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Bloc Québécois

The Bloc Québécois (BQ) is a federal political party in Canada devoted to Quebec nationalism and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty.

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California gubernatorial recall election

The 2003 California gubernatorial recall election was a special election permitted under California state law.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canadian Alliance

The Canadian Alliance (Alliance canadienne), formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance (Alliance réformiste-conservatrice canadienne), was a conservative and right-wing populist federal political party in Canada that existed from 2000 to 2003.

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Chen Shui-bian

Chen Shui-bian (born October 12, 1950) is a retired Taiwanese politician and lawyer who served as President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008.

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Condorcet method

A Condorcet method is an election method that elects the candidate that would win a majority of the vote in all of the head-to-head elections against each of the other candidates, whenever there is such a candidate.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Conservative Party of Canada

The Conservative Party of Canada (Parti conservateur du Canada), colloquially known as the Tories, is a political party in Canada.

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Cruz Bustamante

Cruz Miguel Bustamante (born January 4, 1953) is an American retired politician.

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Democratic Progressive Party

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), also known as Minjindang (MJD) is a liberal political party in the Taiwan and the dominant party in the Pan-Green Coalition as it is currently the majority ruling party, controlling both the presidency and the unicameral Legislative Yuan.

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Devon and East Plymouth (European Parliament constituency)

Devon and East Plymouth was a European Parliament constituency covering all of Devon in England, with the exception of the city of Plymouth.

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Egyptian presidential election, 2012

A presidential election was held in Egypt in two rounds, the first on 23 and 24 May 2012 and the second on 16 and 17 June.

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Election

An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office.

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Election threshold

The electoral threshold is the minimum share of the primary vote which a candidate or political party requires to achieve before they become entitled to any representation in a legislature.

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Electoral system

An electoral system is a set of rules that determines how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined.

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European Parliament election, 1994 (United Kingdom)

The European Parliament Election, 1994 was the fourth European election to be held in the United Kingdom.

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Exhaustive ballot

The exhaustive ballot is a voting system used to elect a single winner.

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Fernando Poe Jr.

Ronald Allan Kelley Poe IMDb (August 20, 1939 – December 14, 2004), better known as Fernando Poe Jr. and colloquially known as FPJ and Da King, was a Filipino actor.

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First-past-the-post voting

A first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting method is one in which voters indicate on a ballot the candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins.

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Fort William, Ontario

Fort William was a city in Northern Ontario, located on the Kaministiquia River, at its entrance to Lake Superior.

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French presidential election, 2002

The 2002 French presidential election consisted of a first round election on 21 April 2002, and a runoff election between the top two candidates (Jacques Chirac and Jean-Marie Le Pen) on 5 May 2002.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Maria Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal Arroyo (born April 5, 1947) is a Filipino professor and politician who served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 until 2010, as the 10th Vice President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, as the deputy speaker of the 17th Congress and a member of the House of Representatives representing the 2nd District of Pampanga since 2010.

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Hawaii's 1st congressional district special election, 2010

The 2010 special election for the 1st congressional district of Hawaii was a special election to the United States House of Representatives that took place to fill the vacancy caused by Representative Neil Abercrombie's resignation on February 28, 2010 to focus on his campaign for Governor of Hawaii in the 2010 gubernatorial election.

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Hello Garci scandal

The Hello Garci scandal (or just Hello Garci), also known as Gloriagate, was a political scandal and electoral crisis in the Philippines.

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Independence of clones criterion

In voting systems theory, the independence of clones criterion measures an election method's robustness to strategic nomination.

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Independence of irrelevant alternatives

The independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA), also known as binary independence or the independence axiom, is an axiom of decision theory and various social sciences.

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Instant-runoff voting

Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is a voting method used in single-seat elections with more than two candidates.

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Jacques Chirac

Jacques René Chirac (born 29 November 1932) is a French politician who served as President of France and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra from 1995 to 2007.

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James Soong

James Soong Chu-yu (born 16 March 1942) is a Taiwanese politician.

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Jean-Marie Le Pen

Jean-Marie Le Pen (born 20 June 1928) is a French politician who has served as Honorary President of the National Front since January 2011 and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France since 2004, previously between 1984 and 2003.

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Kuomintang

The Kuomintang of China (KMT; often translated as the Nationalist Party of China) is a major political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan, based in Taipei and is currently the opposition political party in the Legislative Yuan.

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Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino

The Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino is a political party in the Philippines founded on September 16, 1988.

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Liberal Democrats (UK)

The Liberal Democrats (often referred to as Lib Dems) are a liberal British political party, formed in 1988 as a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), a splinter group from the Labour Party, which had formed the SDP–Liberal Alliance from 1981.

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Liberal Party of Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada (Parti libéral du Canada), colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federal political party in Canada.

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Lien Chan

Lien Chan (born August 27, 1936, in Xi'an, China) is a politician in Taiwan.

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Lionel Jospin

Lionel Jospin (born 12 July 1937) is a French politician, who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.

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National Rally (France)

The National Rally (Rassemblement national, RN), formerly known as the National Front (Front national,; FN) until 2018, is a right-wing populist and nationalist political party in France.

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New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party (NDP; Nouveau Parti démocratique, NPD) is a social democraticThe party is widely described as social democratic.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Opposition (politics)

The political party that has the majority is called ruling party and all other parties or their members are called the Opposition.

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Panfilo Lacson

Panfilo "Ping" Morena Lacson, Sr. (born June 1, 1948) is a Philippine senator who served from 2001 to 2013 and again from 2016 to the present; and a retired Filipino police officer who headed the Philippine National Police from 1999 to 2001.

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Party-list proportional representation

Party-list proportional representation systems are a family of voting systems emphasizing proportional representation (PR) in elections in which multiple candidates are elected (e.g., elections to parliament) through allocations to an electoral list.

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Philippine presidential election, 2004

The Philippine presidential and vice presidential elections of 2004 was held on Monday, May 10, 2004.

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Plurality voting

Plurality voting is an electoral system in which each voter is allowed to vote for only one candidate, and the candidate who polls the most among their counterparts (a plurality) is elected.

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Port Arthur, Ontario

Port Arthur was a city in Northern Ontario, Canada, located on Lake Superior.

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Primary election

A primary election is the process by which the general public can indicate their preference for a candidate in an upcoming general election or by-election, thus narrowing the field of candidates.

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Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Rally for the Republic

The Rally for the Republic (Rassemblement pour la République; RPR), was a Neo-Gaullist and conservative political party in France.

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Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an American political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney, noted for his involvement in consumer protection, environmentalism and government reform causes.

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Ranked voting

Ranked voting describes certain voting systems in which voters rank outcomes in a hierarchy on the ordinal scale (ordinal voting systems).

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Reform Party of Canada

The Reform Party of Canada (Parti réformiste du Canada) was a right-wing populist federal political party in Canada that existed from 1987 to 2000.

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Registration of Political Parties Act 1998

The Registration of Political Parties Act 1998 (c. 48), is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which made legal provision to set up a register of political parties in the United Kingdom.

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Richard Huggett

Richard John Huggett (born January 1944) is a British former teacher who has been a candidate in a number of elections, using descriptions which were similar to those of established political parties, leading to this practice being outlawed under the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998.

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Roh Tae-woo

Roh Tae-woo (born December 4, 1932) is a former South Korean politician and ROK Army general who served as President of South Korea from 1988 to 1993.

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Socialist Party (France)

The Socialist Party (Parti socialiste, PS) is a social-democratic political party in France, and the largest party of the French centre-left.

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South Korean presidential election, 1987

Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 16 December 1987.

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Spoiler effect

The spoiler effect is the effect of vote splitting between candidates or ballot questions who often have similar ideologies.

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Strategic nomination

Strategic nomination is the manipulation of an election by its candidate set.

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Tactical voting

In voting methods, tactical voting (or strategic voting or sophisticated voting or insincere voting) occurs, in elections with more than two candidates, when a voter supports another candidate more strongly than their sincere preference in order to prevent an undesirable outcome.

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Taiwan presidential election, 2000

The second ever direct presidential election was held in Taiwan on March 18, 2000, to elect the 10th-term President and Vice-President of the Republic of China under the 1947 Constitution.

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Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay is a city in, and the seat of, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada.

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Tom McClintock

Thomas Miller McClintock II (born July 10, 1956) is an American politician who is the U.S. Representative for, serving since 2009.

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Turkey

Turkey (Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States presidential election, 2000

The United States presidential election of 2000 was the 54th quadrennial presidential election.

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References

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

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