[EM] French Region uses Condorcet Voting

[Markus Schulze]

Hallo,

on 1 January 2016, the French regions Midi-Pyrenees
and Languedoc-Roussillon have been united to form
a new region. Between 9 May and 10 June 2016, there
was a referendum on the new name for this region.
The voters could choose between five alternatives:

* Languedoc
* Languedoc-Pyrenees
* Occitanie
* Occitanie-Pays Catalan
* Pyrenees-Mediterranee

The voters could rank these alternatives in order of
preference. And Condorcet voting was used to determine
the winner.

Here is the final result:

    There have been 203,993 valid ballots.

    Occitanie : Occitanie-Pays Catalan = 75% : 25%
    Occitanie : Languedoc = 69% : 31%
    Occitanie : Pyrenees-Mediterranee = 62% : 38%
    Occitanie : Languedoc-Pyrenees = 58% : 42%
    Languedoc : Occitanie-Pays Catalan = 50% : 50%
    Languedoc-Pyrenees : Languedoc = 71% : 29%
    Languedoc-Pyrenees : Occitanie-Pays Catalan = 64% : 36%
    Languedoc-Pyrenees : Pyrenees-Mediterranee = 57% : 43%
    Pyrenees-Mediterranee : Languedoc = 60% : 40%
    Pyrenees-Mediterranee : Occitanie-Pays Catalan = 59% : 41%

    Therefore, Occitanie is a Condorcet winner.

To the best of my knowledge, this was the largest
Condorcet poll ever.

Markus Schulze