Editing Single transferable vote (section)

== Benefits ==
Advocates{{who|date=November 2019}} for STV, such as the [[Electoral Reform Society]] (UK), argue that STV is an improvement over winner-take-all non-proportional voting systems such as first-past-the-post, where vote splits commonly result in a majority of voters electing no one and the successful candidate having support from just a minority of the district voters. STV prevents in most cases one party taking all the seats in a city or general area and its elimination of the least-popular candidates during the vote count prevents the election of an extreme candidate or party if it does not have enough overall general appeal.

STV is the system of choice of the [[Proportional Representation Society of Australia]] (which calls it '''''quota-preferential proportional representation'''''),<ref>{{cite web |title=Proportional Representation and its Importance |url=http://www.prsa.org.au/pr.html |publisher=Proportional Representation Society of Australia}}</ref> the [[Electoral Reform Society]] in the United Kingdom<ref>{{cite web |title=Our mission |url=http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/our-mission/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212134541/http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/our-mission/ |archive-date=12 February 2013 |publisher=Electoral Reform Society}}</ref> and [[FairVote]] in the United States (which refers to STV as ''proportional ranked choice voting''.)<ref>{{cite web |title=Proportional Ranked Choice Voting |url=https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/proportional-ranked-choice-voting/ |publisher=FairVote}}</ref> (The FairVote group refers to [[instant-runoff voting]] as ''ranked choice voting'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Ranked Choice Voting |url=http://www.fairvote.org/rcv#rcvbenefits |publisher=FairVote}}</ref> although there are other election systems that use [[ranked voting|ranked-choice]] ballots.)