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Method of holding two elections with one vote

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Double simultaneous vote (DSV) is an electoral system in which multiple offices – such as the president and members of a legislature – are elected through a single vote cast for a party. It can be combined with other electoral systems; in Uruguay DSV is used to elect the president and members of the Senate and Chamber of Representatives, with the presidential election also using the two-round system; if no party/presidential candidate receives a majority of the vote, a second round is held for the presidential election.

The initial republican constitutions of several countries in the Commonwealth of Nations, such as Kenya, Guyana and Zambia, provided for presidential elections by double simultaneous vote. Occasionally, as in Tanganyika, a variant was used whereby the candidate who won a majority of constituencies (as opposed to a plurality of votes) would be elected. Such systems have also been used in Latin America.

Use

Country	First election		Second election		Third election		Simultaneous votes
Country	Offices	System	Offices	System	Offices	System	Simultaneous votes
Angola	Members of the National Assembly	Party-list PR	President	FPTP			Closed list party vote + personal vote
Bolivia	President (first round)	TRS	Chamber of Deputies	AMS	Senate	Party-list PR	Personal vote + mixed single vote + closed list party vote
Guyana	Members of the National Assembly	Party-list PR	President	FPTP			Closed list party vote + personal vote
Uruguay	President	TRS	Chamber of Representatives	Party-list PR	Chamber of Senators	Party-list PR	Personal vote + 2x closed list party vote

Notes

References

Uruguay Election Passport
THE CONSTITUTION OF KENYA ACT 1969, Section 9 – "in every constituency in which a poll is required to be takenthe ballot paper shall be in such form as to pair each candidate for President who is nominated by a particular political party with the candidate (if any) for the National Assembly who is nominated by that political party, and so as to permit the voter to cast one vote for one of the pairs (which shall be taken to be a vote for each member of the pair who is a candidate in a contested election);"
"LAWS OF GUYANA" (PDF). parliament.gov.gy. 2012. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
Zambia 1968
An Act to Declare the Constitution of Tanganyika, Section 4
The Republican Constitution of Tanganyika

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