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A winner-take-allelectoral system is one where a voting bloc can win all seats in a legislature or electoral district, denying representation to any political minorities. When applied using multiple electoral districts to elect an assembly, winner-take-all system provide non-proportional results that often allow for electoral inversions (which can mean minority rule even if the other side has majority), and they do not require candidates to win an (absolute) majority of the vote (vs plurality) to be elected. A less-common but more accurate term is majorizing or majorized representation.
Any election with only a single seat is a winner-take-all system (as it is impossible for the winner to take less than one seat). As a result, legislatures elected by single-member districts are considered winner-take-all, despite allowing for some minority representation.