##  [Spatial Model of Voting](/index.php/spatial-model-voting) 

  ##  [Spatial Model of Voting](https://social.quantumdictionary.io/spatial-model-voting-0) 

  

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Definition

A formal framework that represents voters’ and candidates’ policy preferences as points in one or more ideological dimensions and predicts electoral choices by proximity (policy distance) between voters’ ideal points and candidates’ positions under defined decision rules.