candidates elected, even if the party does not have support of majority of the voters.

The term plurality at-large is in common usage in elections for representative members of a body who are elected or appointed to represent the whole membership of the body (for example, a city, state or province, nation or country, club or association). (The plurality at-large election system is common in cities. The Senate of the Philippines is elected by the rare country-wide use of block voting.) Where the system is used in a territory divided