Choice Voting is used for elections all around the world and has a history of use in the United States. Cities such as New York and Cincinnati have used it for decades while Cambridge continues to employ it for City Council elections. Choice voting is also frequently used to elect board members in private organizations and corporations. On many campuses, choice voting has been adopted to elect student governments that are reflective of the student body.
Choice voting has a history of use in the United States and continues to be used in Cambridge, MA. The principal of proportionality is perhaps best known for its use in all Democratic presidential nomination contests and several Republican nomination contests. Proportional voting systems that are used in local legislative elections in the United States include choice voting (voters rank candidates, and seats are allocated by efficiently distributing voters preferences using a proportional formula), cumulative voting (voters cast as many votes as seats and can give multiple votes to one candidate), and limited voting (voters have fewer votes than seats).
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Student elections provide young voters a great opportunity to participate in campus democracy. A number of colleges and universities use choice voting to elect their student body representatives.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts has used choice voting to elect its City Council and School Board since 1941.
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Around the world, a variety of voting systems are used - from single member districts to choice voting to party list systems (and everything in between) - the nations within our global community display a staggering array of voting systems.
From universities to non-profit boards, to political parties, a number of organizations and corporations use the choice voting form of proportional representation to help elect diverse and reflective boards and representatives. Here are a few examples and links to their bylaws and constitutions.
Outside of the United States, notable British organizations and charities also use choice voting (called the single transferable vote in the United Kingdom) for their elections. Click here for a partial list of organisations that use choice voting in the UK.