Editing Elections in Nauru (section)

==Voting system==
The 19 seat members of the [[Parliament of Nauru]] are elected through the [[Borda count#Dowdall system (Nauru)|Dowdall System]], a [[decimalised]] modification of a preferential [[Borda count]]. The voter must rank all candidates in order of preference (see [[Ranked voting systems|preferential voting]]). Each vote is then counted using the formula 1/n, according to ranking order. For example, a candidate ranked first receives one point, the second candidate receives half a point, the third candidate receives a third of a point, and so on. Each legal vote is aggregated in order to determine a decimal score for each candidate.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nauru|url=http://www.electionguide.org/country.php?ID=150|work=Electionguide.org|access-date=13 December 2011}}</ref> For example, in the [[June 2010 Nauruan parliamentary election]] the then president [[Marcus Stephen]] regained his [[Anetan Constituency]] seat after receiving 349.617 decimal votes from a total of 630 votes.
<ref>{{cite web|title=Results of the General Election held on 19th June, 2010|url=http://www.naurugov.nr/parliament/files/June%202010%20election%20results.pdf|work=naurugov.nr/parliament/index.html|access-date=16 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122014443/http://www.naurugov.nr/parliament/files/June%202010%20election%20results.pdf|archive-date=22 January 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>