Alternative Vote

Alternative Vote (AV) in Voting Law

Definition of Alternative Vote (av) in the context of the United States election law: A candidate-centred, preferential, plurality/majority system used in single member districts in which voters use numbers to mark their preferences on the ballot paper. A candidate who receives an absolute majority (more than 50%) of valid first preference votes is elected. If no candidate achieves an absolute majority of first preferences, the least successful candidate is eliminated and his or her votes are reallocated according to the second preference and so on until one candidate has an absolute majority of the valid votes remaining.

Alternative Vote (AV) in Voting Law

Definition of Alternative Vote (av) in the context of the United States election law: A candidate-centred, preferential, plurality/majority system used in single member districts in which voters use numbers to mark their preferences on the ballot paper. A candidate who receives an absolute majority (more than 50%) of valid first preference votes is elected. If no candidate achieves an absolute majority of first preferences, the least successful candidate is eliminated and his or her votes are reallocated according to the second preference and so on until one candidate has an absolute majority of the valid votes remaining.