double simultaneous vote

{{Short description|Method of holding two elections with one vote}}

{{Electoral systems}}

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.[http://www.electionpassport.com/electoral-systems/uruguay/ Uruguay] Election Passport

The initial republican constitutions of several countries in the Commonwealth of Nations, such as Kenya,[http://kenyalaw.org/kl/fileadmin/pdfdownloads/Constitution/HistoryoftheConstitutionofKenya/Acts/1969/ActNo.5of1969.pdf THE CONSTITUTION OF KENYA ACT 1969], Section 9 – "in every constituency in which a poll is required to be taken[...]the 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);" Guyana{{cite web|url=https://parliament.gov.gy/constitution.pdf |title=LAWS OF GUYANA |publisher=parliament.gov.gy |date=2012 |access-date=2021-01-28}} and Zambia,[http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/ZAMBIA_1968_E.PDF Zambia 1968] provided for presidential elections by double simultaneous vote. Occasionally, as in Tanganyika,[https://books.google.com/books?id=PhwmAQAAMAAJ&dq=tanganyika%20constitution%201962&pg=PA2 An Act to Declare the Constitution of Tanganyika, Section 4][https://www.jstor.org/stable/756206 The Republican Constitution of 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.{{Cn|date=June 2024}}