| 单词 | second ballot |
| 释义 | > as lemmassecond ballot second ballot n. a deciding ballot taken between the candidate who won a previous ballot without securing an absolute majority and the candidate with the next highest number of votes; also attributive of an electoral system using this. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > second ballot ballotage1869 run-off1902 second ballot1910 society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [adjective] > type of electoral system scot and lot1818 plural1839 preferential1870 uninominal1881 second ballot1910 first past the post1914 1910 Rep. Royal Comm. Electoral Syst. 3 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 5163) XXVI. 295 The Second Ballot.—A candidate, to be returned at the first election must receive an absolute majority of the valid votes cast. If no candidate obtains such a majority, a second election is held, at which (in the most usual form of the system) only the two candidates compete who received most votes at the first election. 1927 Observer Nov. 13/1 The Second Ballot means..a second election held a week or a fortnight after the first, whenever at the first election no candidate has secured an absolute majority of the votes. 1932 News Chron. 15 Mar. 9/1 The electorate, at the second ballot, were left to choose between Hindenburg, Marx and Thaelmann. 1954 B. North & R. North tr. M. Duverger Polit. Parties ii. i. 239 There were variations of procedure in the simple-majority second-ballot system. 1976 J. Rogaly Parl. for People vi. 71 Two less satisfactory forms of preferential voting are the ‘second ballot’, used in France, and the ‘Alternative vote’. < as lemmas |
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