[EM] Real IRV Election, Disputable Result

[Jonathan Lundell]

At 11:25 PM -0800 3/10/06, Rob LeGrand wrote:
>I took the raw data from the site Brian Olson posted and ended up with a
>slightly different pairwise table:
>
>      (0)  (1)  (2)  (3)  (4)  (5)
>(0)    - 5545 6747 3991 6790 7336
>(1) 3556    - 5165 3397 5136 5875
>(2) 1161 1289    -  804 2028 3290
>(3) 4763 5730 6961    - 7027 7351
>(4)  987 1318 1869  603    - 3094
>(5)  323  311  431  194  510    -
>
>(0) Hinda Miller
>(1) Kevin J. Curley
>(2) Louie The Cowman Beaudin
>(3) Bob Kiss
>(4) Loyal Ploof
>(5) Write-ins

Here's another view of the data, again without treating the (few) 
equal-preference ballots. Kiss was the Condorcet and IRV winner. Too 
bad about The Cowman....

C:\VotingSoln\pwmaster>pwmaster burling.in
# Generated by PWMaster, version 1.01
# copyright 1999 by Initiative Computing

Pairwise results:
(9865 ballots)
       Louie The Cowman Beaudin- 1289:5165 -Kevin J. Curley
       Louie The Cowman Beaudin-  804:6961 -Bob Kiss
       Louie The Cowman Beaudin- 1161:6747 -Hinda Miller
       Louie The Cowman Beaudin- 2028:1869 -Loyal Ploof
       Louie The Cowman Beaudin- 3290:431  -Write-ins
                Kevin J. Curley- 3397:5730 -Bob Kiss
                Kevin J. Curley- 3556:5545 -Hinda Miller
                Kevin J. Curley- 5136:1318 -Loyal Ploof
                Kevin J. Curley- 5875:311  -Write-ins
                       Bob Kiss- 4763:3991 -Hinda Miller
                       Bob Kiss- 7027:603  -Loyal Ploof
                       Bob Kiss- 7351:194  -Write-ins
                   Hinda Miller- 6790:987  -Loyal Ploof
                   Hinda Miller- 7336:323  -Write-ins
                    Loyal Ploof- 3094:510  -Write-ins


Number of pairwise contests won (6 candidates, 5 max value)
        5: Bob Kiss (C03)
        4: Hinda Miller (C04)
        3: Kevin J. Curley (C02)
        2: Louie The Cowman Beaudin (C01)
        1: Loyal Ploof (C05)
        0: Write-ins (C06)

-- 
/Jonathan Lundell.