[EM] French Region uses Condorcet Voting

[robert bristow-johnson]

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Subject: [EM] French Region uses Condorcet Voting

From: "Markus Schulze" <markus.schulze at alumni.tu-berlin.de>

Date: Fri, June 17, 2016 4:40 pm

To: election-methods at lists.electorama.com

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> 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:

>
...

>

> The voters could rank these alternatives in order of

> preference. And Condorcet voting was used to determine

> the winner.
...

>

> Therefore, Occitanie is a Condorcet winner.

>

> To the best of my knowledge, this was the largest

> Condorcet poll ever.
perhaps the *first* use of a Condorcet poll in a governmental election.




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