wasted vote

set of ballots that do not help elect a candidate, including those cast for a losing candidate, and those cast for a winning candidate in excess of that needed to win

Class type of: vote count Q1046450

Facts

6 properties

Subclass of: vote count^[1]
Part of: first-past-the-post voting^[2]
Contributing factor of: efficiency gap^[5]
Does not have effect: victory^[6]
Has part(s): vote count, vote count^[3]^[4]
Has parts: vote count, vote count

🏷️ Also known as

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🔖 Identifiers · 2

Freebase ID: /m/062m4p
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 2777018176

🔗 Connections

Does not have effect 1

victory

Part of 1

first-past-the-post voting

← Has effect 1

first-past-the-post voting

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