{{short description|Type of block voting}} {{Electoral systems}} The '''general ticket''' or '''party block voting''' ('''PBV'''),<ref>The Australian Electoral System, p. 61</ref> is a type of block voting in which voters opt for a party or a team of candidates, and the highest-polling party/team becomes the winner and receives 100% of the seats for this multi-member district. The party block voting is usually applied with more than one multi-member district to prevent one team winning all seats. This system has a winner-take-all nature similar to first-past-the-post voting for single-member districts, which is vulnerable to gerrymandering and majority reversals.

A related system is the majority bonus system, where a block of seats is awarded according to the winner of party-list proportional representation.

==Usage==

=== Philippines === From 1941 up to 1949 elections, the Philippines elected its officials under this system, then known as ''block voting''. A voter can write the name of the party on the ballot and have all of that voter's votes allocated for that party's candidates, from president to local officials; there is still an option for a voter to split one's ticket down ballot and not write the name of the party. This led to landslides for the Nacionalista Party in 1941, for the Liberal Party in 1949. The law was amended in time for the 1951 election, having voters to vote for each office separately.<ref name="quezon">{{cite news |last=Quezon |first=Manuel III |date=November 20, 2006 |title=Block voting |url=http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20061120-33603/Block_voting |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326173220/http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20061120-33603/Block_voting |archivedate=March 26, 2012 |accessdate=December 31, 2012 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |authorlink=Manuel L. Quezon III}}</ref>

=== Singapore === {{Main article|Group representation constituency}} In Singapore, the general ticket system, locally known as the {{em|party block vote}}, elects by far most members of the Parliament of Singapore from multi-member districts known as group representation constituencies (GRCs), on a plurality basis. This operates in parallel with ordinary single-member district and nominations. This system is moderated by a requirement for racial diversity; every candidate "team" must include at least one member from a minority ethnic group. According to the government, this serves to enshrine minority representation in Parliament.<ref>{{cite web |title=GRCs: How do they affect elections? |url=https://capesingapore.com/grcs-how-do-they-affect-elections/2025/ |website=capesingapore.com |publisher=Community for Advocacy and Political Education |access-date=11 January 2026 |location=Singapore |date=25 March 2025}}</ref>

=== United States === {{United States House of Representatives}}Ticket voting is used to elect electors for the Electoral College for presidential elections, except for some of the electors in Maine and Nebraska who are elected by first-past-the-post in districts covering just part of each state. Under ticket voting, votes for any non-overall winning party's candidates do not receive any representation by elected members.

=== Coexistence === The following countries use party block voting in coexistence with other systems in different districts. {| class="wikitable sortable" !Country !Legislative body !Latest election (year) !(Seats per constituency) ! colspan="2" |Electoral system !Total seats !Share of seats elected by PBV !Constituencies |- |'''{{Flagicon|Cote d'Ivoire}} Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)''' |National Assembly |2025 |1 (local districts), 2-6 (multi-member districts) | style="background:#C87137" | |First-past-the-post (FPTP/SMP) in single-member districts and '''party block voting (PBV)''' in multi-member districts |255 | |electoral districts |- |'''{{Flagicon|Egypt}} Egypt''' |House of Representatives |2025 |1 (local districts), 42–100 (list districts) | style="background:#C87137" | |Two-round system (TRS) and '''party block voting (PBV/General ticket)''' |59 | |electoral districts |- |'''{{Flagicon|Singapore}} Singapore''' |Parliament |2025 |1 (single-member districts), 4–5 (multi-member districts) | style="background:#C87137" | |First-past-the-post (FPTP/SMP) in single-member districts and '''party block voting (PBV)''' in multi-member districts |108 (97 directly elected) | | |- |'''{{Flagicon|United States}} United States''' |'''{{Flagicon|United States}}''' Electoral College |2024 |1–54 | style="background:#C87137" | |The electors of the Electoral College (who have opportunity to elect the President of the United States) are elected by '''general ticket''' in 48 states based on state-wide party vote tallies. Nebraska and Maine use the general ticket method for 2 statewide electors each, with the other electors chosen by first-past-the-post in single-member congressional districts. |538 | |All states except Maine and Nebraska, where congressional districts are also used as constituencies |}

=== Superposition === Countries using party block voting in parallel with proportional representation. {| class="wikitable sortable" !Country !Legislative body !Latest election (year) !(Seats per constituency) ! colspan="2" |Electoral system !Total seats !Share of seats elected by PBV !Constituencies |- |'''{{Flagicon|Andorra}} Andorra''' |General Council |2023 |2 (local districts) / 14 (nationwide constituency) | style="background:#D400AA" | |Parallel voting / ''superposition'' (MMM): '''Party block voting (PBV)''' locally + list PR nationwide |28 |'''50%''' |7 parishes, 1 nationwide constituency |- |'''{{Flagicon|Cameroon}} Cameroon''' |National Assembly |2020 |1–7 | style="background:#C87137" | |''Coexistence''+''conditional'' supermixed/hybrid: First-past-the-post (FPTP/SMP) in single-member constituencies,

'''party with over 50% of vote gets all seats in multi-member constituencies (party block voting), otherwise highest party gets half''', rest distributed by largest remainder (Hare quota) |180 |'''(50%/100%)''' |electoral districts |- |'''{{Flagicon|Chad}} Chad''' |National Assembly |2024 |Unknown | style="background:#C87137" | |''Coexistence''+''conditional'' supermixed/hybrid: First-past-the-post (FPTP/SMP) '''party with over 50% of vote gets all seats in multi-member constituencies''' (party block voting), otherwise List PR (largest remainder, closed list)<ref>{{Cite web|date=23 September 2015|title=Le système électoral au Tchad - Comité de Suivi de l'Appel à la Paix et à la Réconciliation|url=http://www.csapr-initiative-paix.org/le-systeme-electoral-au-tchad/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923150451/http://www.csapr-initiative-paix.org/le-systeme-electoral-au-tchad/|archive-date=2015-09-23|access-date=25 September 2020|language=fr}}</ref> |188 |'''(50%/100%)''' |electoral districts |- |'''{{Flagicon|Djibouti}} Djibouti''' |National Assembly |2023 |3–28 | style="background:#646696" | |''Fusion'' / majority jackpot (MBS): '''80% of seats (rounded to the nearest integer) in each constituency are awarded to the party receiving the most votes (party block voting)''', remaining seats are allocated proportionally to other parties receiving over 10% (closed list, D'Hondt method) |65 |'''80%''' |regions |}

==History== Historically party block voting was used in the US House of Representatives before 1967 but mainly before 1847; and in France, in the pre-World War I decades of the Third Republic which began in 1870. === France === The '''scrutin de liste''' (Fr. {{Lang|fr|scrutin}}, voting by ballot, and {{Lang|fr|liste}}, a list) was, before World War I, a system of election of national representatives in France by which the electors of a department voted for a party-homogeneous slate of deputies to be elected to serve it nationally. It was distinguished from the {{Lang|fr|scrutin d'arrondissement}}, also called {{Lang|fr|scrutin uninominal}}, under which the electors in each arrondissement returned one deputy.<ref>{{EB1911 |wstitle=Scrutin de Liste |volume=24 |page=487 |inline=1}}</ref>

=== United States === The following is a table of every instance of the use of the general ticket in the United States Congress. General ticket system was common until limited to special use by the 1842 Apportionment Bill and locally implementing legislation which took effect after the 1845&ndash;47 Congress.<ref>Public Law 90-196, {{usc|2|2c}}</ref> Until the Congress ending in 1967 it took effect in rare instances, save for a two cases of ex-Confederate States &ndash; for one term &ndash; these had tiny delegations, were for top-up members to be at-large allocated pending redistricting, or were added to the union since the last census.

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" ! Congress ! Dates ! State and<br> number of representatives |- | 1st || 1789–1791 || Connecticut (5), New Jersey (4), New Hampshire (3), Pennsylvania (8) |- | 2nd || 1791–1793 || Connecticut (5), New Jersey (4), New Hampshire (3) |- | 3rd || 1793–1795 || Connecticut (7), Georgia (2), New Jersey (5), New Hampshire (4), Pennsylvania (13), Rhode Island (2) |- | 4th and 5th || 1795–1799 || Connecticut (7), Georgia (2), New Jersey (5), New Hampshire (4), Rhode Island (2) |- | 6th || 1799–1801 || Connecticut (7), Georgia (2), New Hampshire (4), Rhode Island (2) |- | 7th || 1801–1803 || Connecticut (7), Georgia (2), New Jersey (5), New Hampshire (4), Rhode Island (2) |- | 8th || 1803–1805 || Connecticut (7), Georgia (4), New Jersey (6), New Hampshire (5), Rhode Island (2), Tennessee (3) |- | 9th to 12th || 1805–1813 || Connecticut (7), Georgia (4), New Jersey (6), New Jersey (5), Rhode Island (2) |- | 13th || 1813–1815 || Connecticut (7), Delaware (2), Georgia (6), New Hampshire (6), Rhode Island (2), Vermont (6) |- | 14th to 16th || 1815–1821 || Connecticut (7), Delaware (2), Georgia (6), New Jersey (6), New Hampshire (6), Rhode Island (2), Vermont (6) |- | 17th || 1821–1823 || Connecticut (7), Delaware (2), Georgia (6), New Jersey (6), New Hampshire (6), Rhode Island (2) |- | 18th || 1823–1825 || Connecticut (6), Georgia (7), New Jersey (6), New Hampshire (6), Rhode Island (2), Vermont (5) |- | 19th || 1825–1827 || Connecticut (6), Georgia (7), New Jersey (6), New Hampshire (6), Rhode Island (2) |- | 20th || 1827–1829 || Connecticut (6), New Jersey (6), New Hampshire (6), Rhode Island (2) |- | 21st and 22nd || 1829–1833 || Connecticut (6), Georgia (7), New Jersey (6), New Hampshire (6), Rhode Island (2) |- | 23rd and 24th || 1833–1837 || Connecticut (6), Georgia (9), Missouri (2), Mississippi (2), New Jersey (6), New Hampshire (5), Rhode Island (2) |- | 25th and 26th || 1837–1841 || New Hampshire (5), Georgia (9), Missouri (2), Mississippi (2), New Jersey (6), Rhode Island (2) |- | 27th || 1841–1843 || Alabama (5), Georgia (9), Missouri (2), Mississippi (2), New Hampshire (5), New Jersey (6), Rhode Island (2) |- | 28th || 1843–1845 || New Hampshire (4), Georgia (8), Missouri (5), Mississippi (4) |- | 29th || 1845–1847 || Iowa (2), New Hampshire (4), Missouri (5), Mississippi (4) |- | 30th || 1847–1849 || Wisconsin (2) |- | 31st to 34th || 1849–1857 || California (2) |- | 35th to 37th || 1857–1863 || California (2), Minnesota (2) |- | 38th to 42nd || 1863–1873 || California (3) |- | 43rd to 47th || 1873–1883 || Florida (2), Kansas (3) |- | 48th || 1883–1885 || Maine (4) |- | 51st and 52nd || 1889–1893 || South Dakota (2) |- | 53rd to 57th || 1893–1903 || South Dakota (2), Washington (2) |- | 58th to 60th || 1903–1909 || North Dakota (2), South Dakota (2), Washington (3) |- | 61st || 1909–1911 || North Dakota (2), South Dakota (2) |- | 62nd || 1911–1913 || North Dakota (2), New Mexico (2), South Dakota (2) |- | 63rd || 1913–1915 || Idaho (2), Montana (2), Utah (2) |- | 64th || 1915–1917 || Idaho (2), Montana (2) |- | 65th to 72nd || 1917–1933 || Idaho (2), Montana (2) |- | 73rd || 1933–1935 || Kentucky (9), Minnesota (9), Missouri (13), North Dakota (2), Virginia (9) |- | 74th to 77th || 1935–1943 || North Dakota (2) |- | 78th to 80th || 1943–1949 || Arizona (2), New Mexico (2), North Dakota (2) |- | 81st to 87th || 1949–1963 || New Mexico (2), North Dakota (2) |- | 88th || 1963–1965 || Alabama (8), Hawaii (2), New Mexico (2) |- | 89th and 90th || 1965–1969 || Hawaii (2), New Mexico (2) |- | 91st || 1969–1971 || Hawaii (2) |}

==See also== * Block voting * Directorial system * Duverger's law * Multiple non-transferable vote * Plural district

== References == <references/>

==Sources== *{{cite book|title = The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts|last = Martis|first = Kenneth C.|year = 1982|publisher = Macmillan Publishing Company|location = New York}}

==External links== *[https://www.house.gov/the-house-explained/history-of-the-house U.S. House of Representatives: House History]

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