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Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is an electoral system that uses ranked voting.[1] Its purpose is to elect the majority choice in single-member districts in which there are more than two candidates and thus help ensure majority rule. It is a single-winner version of single transferable voting. Formerly the term "instant-runoff voting" was used for what many people now call contingent voting or supplementary vote.[2] In the United States, IRV is commonly referred to as ranked-choice voting (RCV) (although there are other forms of ranked voting),[3] and it is called preferential voting in Australia,[4][5] where it has seen the widest adoption. In the United Kingdom, it is generally called alternative vote (AV),[6] whereas in some other countries it is referred to as the single transferable vote, which usually refers to only its multi-winner variant. These names are often used inconsistently.[7][8][9][10] Voters in IRV elections rank the candidates in order of preference. Ballots are initiall

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