As of September 2013, American cities currently using IRV to elect at least one office include Minneapolis, Minnesota; Oakland, California; Portland, Maine; St. Paul, Minnesota; San Francisco, California; Takoma Park, Maryland; Berkeley, California; San Leandro, California; and Telluride, Colorado.
Instant-runoff voting, referred to as "preferential voting" in Australia, is one type of ranked voting system.
Exhaustive ballot, a reiterative voting system whereby rounds of voting continue (with or without elimination) until one candidate achieves a majority, also called repeated balloting
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Instant-runoff voting, an electoral system whereby voters rank the candidates in order of preference
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Two-round system, a voting system used to elect a single winner, whereby only two candidates from the first round continue to the second round
Runoff voting methods are less vulnerable to vote splitting compared to plurality voting.
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The Legislative Assembly presently consists of 88 members, each elected in single-member electoral districts, more commonly known as electorates or seats, using preferential voting, which is the same voting system used for the federal lower house, the Australian House of Representatives.