plural voting

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a system that enables an elector to vote more than once in an election

2. (Historical Terms) (in Britain before 1948) a system enabling certain electors to vote in more than one constituency

Translations

plural voting

n → Pluralwahlrecht nt, → Mehrstimmenwahlrecht nt

References in periodicals archive ?

Plural voting was not an issue in the 1902 debate, and the Act did not force States without woman suffrage to introduce it.

Putting the Queensland woman suffrage movement into its wider context

However, plural voting took a long time to die, even in countries we hold up as models of democracy.

The Power of Choice

The Education Bill was killed, so was the plural voting bill; a licensing bill was not even brought in, a clutch of land bills were killed or crippled, but not, ironically, the Trades Disputes Act, itself re-shaped by a Labour amendment, which would invest the trade union movement with powers not unlike those of the unreformed House of Lords.

Times and tides

Given that the abolition of purchased seats and plural voting are generally seen as victories in the evolution of a democratic electorate, this problem with televoting is not insignificant and a majority (53.