Abstract
Abstract What in Britain is usually called ‘the Alternative Vote’ is a system for electing to single-member constituencies. In Australia it is called ‘preferential voting’; but in this book we may refer to it by the abbreviation AV. It is an adaptation for a single ballot of an elimination system in which successive ballots are held, each requiring the electors to vote for just one candidate. If, in the first ballot, no candidate secures an absolute majority, the candidate obtaining the fewest votes is eliminated, and a second ballot held between the remainder. If still no candidate secures an absolute majority, the candidate obtaining the fewest votes in this ballot is now eliminated, and a third ballot is held; the ballots continue in this way until some candidate does obtain an absolute majority of the votes, when he is declared elected.
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