Editing Plurality voting (section)

=== Attributes and criteria ===
'''Majority criterion:''' Will a candidate always win who is ranked as the unique favorite by a majority of voters?

; <dfn>[[Independence of clones criterion|Independence of clone alternatives]] (cloneproof)</dfn>
: Does the outcome never change if non-winning candidates similar to an existing candidate are added? There are three different phenomena which could cause a method to fail this criterion:
:; [[Vote-splitting|Spoilers]]
:: Candidates which decrease the chance of any of the similar or clone candidates winning, also known as a [[spoiler effect]].
:; Teams
:: Sets of similar candidates whose mere presence helps the chances of any of them winning.
:; Crowds
:: Additional candidates who affect the outcome of an election without either helping or harming the chances of their factional group, but instead affecting another group.

'''No favorite betrayal:''' Can voters be sure that they do not need to rank any other candidate above their favorite in order to obtain a result they prefer?
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Number of winners
!System
!Candidate/list
!Ballot type (number of votes)
!Representation
![[Majority favorite criterion|Majority criterion]]
![[Independence of clones criterion|Independence of clones]]
!No favorite betrayal
|-
| rowspan="2" |'''Single-winner'''
|[[First-past-the-post voting|'''First-past-the-post''']]
|Candidate
|'''mark 1'''
|[[Majoritarian representation|'''Majoritarian''']]
|'''Yes'''
|'''No (spoilers)'''
|'''No'''
|-
|[[Approval voting]]
|Candidate
|mark any number
|[[Majoritarian representation|Majoritarian]]
|Yes
|Yes
|No
|-
| rowspan="5" |'''Multi-winner'''
|'''[[Plurality block voting]]'''
|Candidate
|'''mark at most as many as seats'''
|[[Majoritarian representation|'''Majoritarian''']]
|'''Yes'''
|'''No (spoilers, crowds)'''
|'''No'''
|-
|'''[[Limited voting]]'''
|Candidate
|'''mark k'''
|[[Semi-proportional representation|'''Semi-proportional''']]
|'''Yes'''
|'''No (spoilers, crowds)'''
|'''No'''
|-
|'''[[Single non-transferable vote]]'''
|Candidate
|'''mark 1'''
|[[Semi-proportional representation|'''Semi-proportional''']]
|'''Yes'''
|'''No (spoilers, crowds)'''
|'''No'''
|-
|[[General ticket|'''Party block voting/General ticket (plurality)''']]
|List
|'''mark 1'''
|[[Majoritarian representation|'''Majoritarian''']]
|'''Yes'''
|'''No (spoilers)'''
|'''No'''
|-
|[[Cumulative voting]]
|Candidate
|distribute fixed number of votes
|[[Semi-proportional representation|Semi-proportional]]
|
|'''No (spoilers, crowds)'''
|
|}