Editing Two-round system (section)

=== Top-two primaries ===

In the United States, a two-round system called the [[jungle primary]] and used in [[Elections in Louisiana|Louisiana]] in place of traditional primary elections to choose each party's candidate. In this state, the first round is held on [[Election Day (United States)|Election Day]] with runoffs occurring soon after.

[[Elections in Washington|Washington]] adopted a two-round system [[Initiative 872|in a 2008 referendum]], called the [[nonpartisan blanket primary]] or top-two primary. [[Elections in California|California]] [[California Proposition 14 (2010)|approved the system in 2010]], which was first used for the [[2011 California's 36th congressional district special election|36th congressional district special election]] in February 2011. The first election (the primary) is held ''before'' the general election in November and the top two candidates enter the general election. The general election is always held, even if a candidate gets over 50%.

[[Elections in Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] can have a second round after Election Day if the winner of the first round does not get more than 50%.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://advance.lexis.com/documentpage/?pdmfid=1000516&crid=d8d9613a-497b-44ee-b297-673a3dcaf365&config=00JAA1MDBlYzczZi1lYjFlLTQxMTgtYWE3OS02YTgyOGM2NWJlMDYKAFBvZENhdGFsb2feed0oM9qoQOMCSJFX5qkd&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fstatutes-legislation%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A6348-FW71-DYB7-W31K-00008-00&pdcontentcomponentid=234186&pdteaserkey=sr0&pditab=allpods&ecomp=6s65kkk&earg=sr0&prid=5a7f3049-9a44-4617-955f-31c9d31504d6|title=21-2-501. Number of votes required for election; runoff.}}</ref> However normal partisan primaries are used so it is rare to have more than 2 competitive candidates in the first round.