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Subject: [EM] French Region uses Condorcet Voting<br />
From: "Markus Schulze" <markus.schulze@alumni.tu-berlin.de><br />
Date: Fri, June 17, 2016 4:40 pm<br />
To: election-methods@lists.electorama.com<br />
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> on 1 January 2016, the French regions Midi-Pyrenees<br />
> and Languedoc-Roussillon have been united to form<br />
> a new region. Between 9 May and 10 June 2016, there<br />
> was a referendum on the new name for this region.<br />
> The voters could choose between five alternatives:<br />
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> The voters could rank these alternatives in order of<br />
> preference. And Condorcet voting was used to determine<br />
> the winner.</p><p>...<br />
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> Therefore, Occitanie is a Condorcet winner.<br />
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> To the best of my knowledge, this was the largest<br />
> Condorcet poll ever.</p><p>perhaps the *first* use of a Condorcet poll in a governmental election.</p><p><br />
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--</p><p>r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com</p><p>"Imagination is more important than knowledge."</p>