Condorcet Method - Use of Condorcet Voting

Use of Condorcet Voting

Condorcet methods are not known to be currently in use in government elections anywhere in the world, but a Condorcet method known as Nanson's method was used in city elections in the U.S. town of Marquette, Michigan in the 1920s, and today Condorcet methods are used by a number of private organizations. Organizations which currently use some variant of the Condorcet method are:

  • The Wikimedia Foundation uses the Schulze method to elect its Board of Trustees
  • The Pirate Party of Sweden uses the Schulze method for its primaries
  • The Debian project uses the Schulze method for internal referenda and to elect its leader
  • The Software in the Public Interest corporation uses the Schulze method for internal referenda and to elect its Board of Directors
  • The Gentoo Foundation uses the Schulze method for internal referenda and to elect its Board of Trustees and its Council
  • The Free State Project used Minimax for choosing its target state
  • The uk.* hierarchy of Usenet
  • The Student Society of the University of British Columbia uses ranked pairs for its executive elections.
  • Kingman Hall, a student housing cooperative, uses the Schulze method for its elections
  • TheDemocrat.co.uk uses Copeland's method to elect content for publishing via a web newspaper format.
See also: Use of the Schulze method

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