I'm not clear on what you mean here, but ideologically, the effect of plurality voting is to make it more likely that extremists are elected, and handicap candidates near the center. This is known as the "center squeeze", and it's a well-understood consequence of looking only at first-place rankings. As a result, it shows up most strongly with plurality voting (which is entirely about first place rankings), and is also prominent with instant runoff voting, which makes intermediate decisions based on first place rankings among subsets of votes.