There are many Condorcet methods [LWN.net]

There are many Condorcet methods

Posted Dec 19, 2018 18:47 UTC (Wed) by david.a.wheeler (subscriber, #72896)
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Technically there isn't one "Condorcet method". There are many different voting systems that meet the Condorcet criteria, and they are all Condorcet methods.

From Wikipedia's entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method :

"A Condorcet method (English: /kɒndɔːrˈseɪ/) is an election method that elects the candidate that would win a majority of the vote in all of the head-to-head elections against each of the other candidates, whenever there is such a candidate. A candidate with this property is called the Condorcet winner. Voting methods that always elect the Condorcet winner, when one exists, satisfy the Condorcet criterion."

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There are many Condorcet methods

Posted Dec 19, 2018 19:27 UTC (Wed) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link]

Yes, this was discussed exhaustively in one of the threads linked above :-). The specific method we ended up with was a ranked choice vote, then if there's a Condorcet winner, they win, and otherwise (= tie or cycle) we revote. This is a pretty simple method, but AFAIK it doesn't have a standard name so we ended up calling it things like "pure Condorcet" to distinguish from e.g. the Schulze method that Debian uses.