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Definition of Block vote
1. Noun. A vote proportional in magnitude to the number of people that a delegate represents.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Block Vote
Literary usage of Block vote
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1908)
"The Cleveland System is simply the block vote a little ameliorated by lessening in a
... (b) The Cumulative Vote may be used instead of the block vote. ..."
2. Proportional Representation Applied to Party Government: A New Electoral System by Thomas Ramsden Ashworth, H. P. C. Ashworth (1901)
"PREFERENTIAL VOTING, THE block vote, ETC. Preferential Voting.—Laplace, the great
mathematician, to whom we owe so much of the theory of probability, ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"In each of these contests the Irish vote has played an important part. In New
South Wales it was given as a block vote in favour of Protection. ..."
4. Proportional Representation Review by Proportional Representation League (1896)
"When Virginia went over to the block vote in 1800—she had previously chosen ...
Madison declared that Virginia was driven to the block vote by necessity, ..."
5. The Coming Revolution in Great Britain by Gerald Gould (1920)
"The block vote, which I am not concerned to defend, is the device by which a bare
majority of a given union or federation can decide which way, ..."
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