Meaning of ranked choice | Babel Free

Definitions

Any voting system in which voters rank their candidates (or options) in order of preference on their ballots.

attributive, often, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“ranked-choice ballot; ranked-choice voting”

“The results — on the 31-column spreadsheet that Ms. Quan held in her hands — testified to the power of finishing second in a ranked-choice election. […] Campaign strategists said Ms. Quan had taken advantage of a ranked-choice system that was used in Oakland for the first time.”

“The election was the first in Alaska to utilize ranked-choice voting, a system adopted by the state’s voters in 2020. […] Ranked choice is more efficient than holding a runoff election, and its backers insist that it offers a better reflection of voters’ preferences.”

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