June 19, 2013
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Description
The two-round system is a voting system used to elect a single winner where the voter casts a single vote for their chosen candidate. However, if no candidate receives the required number of votes, then those candidates having less than a certain proportion of the votes, or all but the two candidates receiving the most votes, are eliminated, and a second round of voting occurs.
The two round system is used around the world for the election of legislative bodies and directly elected presidents. For example, it is used in French presidential, legislative, and cantonal elections, and also to elect the presidents of Afghanistan, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Liberia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, Uruguay, Zimbabwe —see: Table of voting systems by nation. Historically it was used in the German Empire of 1871-1918, and in New Zealand in the 1908 and 1911 elections.
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![Iran parliamentary runoff elections slated for Friday [Press TV, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-3938000/3938326/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=44a18845a7371ae5b3d5023665dd9478)
![Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party sweeps parliamentary runoff election [Al Jazeera, Qatar]](/images/image_cache/base-313000/313148/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=dd0dc7860bc7639b26a02f5607424cfb)
![Egypt holds run-off elections as ElBaradei expresses concerns over the rise of religious extremists [BBC Arabic, UK]](/images/image_cache/base-313000/313120/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=ceaaccc93bfdc83510f69f436ad195da)