[EM] Election-Methods Digest, Vol 87, Issue 54

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

James Gilmour wrote:
> Ralph Suter  > Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 3:12 AM
>> 1. Despite your own certainty about how "the real world of partisan
>>  politics" functions, your opinion is entirely speculative  with no
>> basis in historical events, since no Condorcet elections have ever
>> been held in any major public elections (or even any minor ones I
>> am aware of).
> 
> You are right, so far as I am aware  -  there have never been any
> Condorcet public elections anywhere in the world.  That in itself 
> should tell us something as the Condorcet voting system has been
> known since 1785.

Nanson's method was used in city elections in Marquette, Michigan. It 
might not be a very large-scale public election, but I think it was public.