[EM] Finding Condorcet

Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_elmet at t-online.de
Tue Mar 26 16:23:53 PDT 2024


On 2024-03-26 22:03, Closed Limelike Curves wrote:
> It's definitely nice to see more confirmation that Condorcet cycles are 
> rare. OTOH, I think the claim about IRV rarely failing to elect 
> Condorcet winners is incorrect. If he's looking at Australia and 
> Scotland, those have a 2-party and 1-party dominant system, 
> respectively. No wonder IRV doesn't have Condorcet failures, then, it's 
> playing on easy mode!

I don't think Scotland belongs there, since it doesn't use IRV. It uses 
MMP :-)

Some local elections use STV, but that's multiwinner.

-km


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