Instant Run-Off Voting

Instant Run-Off Voting is a voting system used used to elect a single member by preference. If in the first count no candidate has more then %50 of the vote then the candidate with the least votes is eliminated and that person's votes is redistributed at full value to their second choices, this process continues until someone has a majority. This system is fair because if the person in last place hadn't ran in the election those votes would have gone to the second choices anyway, often a first past the post election can be decided by someone who hasn't got a chance of winning running against someone with similar who would have won, but inadvertently helping to get someone with completely different views elected.