systems where a majority winner will always win are said to satisfy the Condorcet winner criterion. The Condorcet winner criterion extends the principle...

have the Condorcet winner in it should one exist. Many Condorcet methods elect a candidate who is in the Smith set absent a Condorcet winner, and is thus...

majority loser criterion but does not imply the Condorcet winner criterion. A voting system complying with the Condorcet loser criterion will never allow...

single Condorcet winner. Voting systems that always elect a candidate from the Smith set pass the Smith criterion. The Smith set and Smith criterion are...

election of a Condorcet winner. Whilst the Marquis de Condorcet early on showed that it did not satisfy his Condorcet winner criterion, which it may fail...

criterion include any Condorcet method, instant-runoff voting, Bucklin voting, plurality voting, and approval voting. The mutual majority criterion is...

fail the Condorcet criterion may nullify the voting power of voters outside the mutual majority whenever they fail to elect the Condorcet winner. Anti-plurality...

measured the frequency with which certain non-Condorcet systems elected Condorcet winners. The Marquis de Condorcet viewed elections as analogous to jury votes...

ranked-pairs procedure complies with the Condorcet winner criterion (and as a result is considered to be a Condorcet method). Ranked pairs begins with a round-robin...

systems, the Minimax Condorcet method is a single-winner ranked-choice voting method that always elects the majority (Condorcet) winner. Minimax compares...