0 a single vote using a system where, if your preferred candidate (=a person competing to be elected) does not get enough votes to stay in the election, your vote can be given to your second choice of candidate; the voting system itself: --
I believe the single transferable vote is the most perfect method of voting that we have to-day on paper.
We have imposed a single transferable vote system on large numbers of our ex-colonial people.
During the 1920s both parliamentary and local elections were held under a system of the single transferable vote with multi-member constituencies.
We have to contend with the single transferable vote and with so-called proportional representation.
I did not advocate that we should move to the single transferable vote system.
I believe that the single transferable vote system which has been imposed upon us is just about the worst form of proportional representation.
We have ended up with a mixed system—some alternative vote and some single transferable vote.
I am not one of those people who were born muttering, "single transferable vote".
