Editing Plurality voting (section)

==== Single-winner ====
This is a general example for single-winner plurality voting ("first-past-the-post"), using population percentages taken from one [[U.S. state|state]] for illustrative purposes.
{{Tenn voting example}}

If each voter in each city naively selects one city on the ballot (Memphis voters select Memphis, Nashville voters select Nashville, and so on), Memphis will be selected, as it has the most votes 42%. The system does not require that the winner have a [[majority]], only a plurality. Memphis wins because it has the most votes even though 58% of the voters in the example preferred Memphis least. The opposite result would occur in [[Instant-runoff voting|instant-runoff]], where Knoxville (the city furthest to the east, and the "second-worst" choice) would accumulate a majority from vote transfers from voter who initially voted for Chattanooga and Nashville. Nashville is the [[majority-preferred winner]], and as a result would be elected by any [[Condorcet method]].