Jump to content

Talk:Spoiler effect

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by DanKeshet (talk | contribs) at 18:20, 10 November 2003. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Alternative voting systems which avoid the spoiler effect include instant runoff voting, also known as single transferable vote.

This is wrong on two accounts:

  1. IRV and STV are not the same thing. The first is a single-winner system; the second is a multi-winner system. The second reduces to the first in the case of a single district.
  2. IRV and STV can suffer from the spoiler effect. For example, if the "p-ist" vote was split between 3 p-ists, the most popular and "major party" p-ist could be eliminated early, even though they would handily beat the winning q-ist.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Spoiler_effect&oldid=2820668"