VoteVote

183 voters

irv:
turquoise
coombs:
tomato
frontAndBack:
turquoise
approval:
tomato
combinedApproval:
tomato
fptp:
tomato
veto:
turquoise
borda:
tomato
nauru:
tomato
contingency:
tomato
supplementary:
tomato
sriLankanContingency:
tomato
copeland:
tomato
turquoise
heliotrope
lullCopeland:
tomato
turquoise
heliotrope
vfa:
tomato
boehmSigned:
vfaRunoff:
turquoise
star:
tomato
bucklin:
tomato
fallback:
icterine
historicalBucklin:
tomato
threeTwoOne:
tomato
quadratic:
tomato
cumulative:
tomato
majorityJudgement:
heliotrope
kemenyYoung:
tomato

Voter preferences are calculated based on RGB distance between colors. Each voter will prefer the closest candidate.

Instant Runoff Voting RCV Winner(s): turquoise

Round 1

Explanation

In IRV (the RCV method most people are familiar with), voters rank the candidates by preference. Each round, the candidate with the fewest votes gets eliminated and the voters who voted for that candidate have their votes move to their next best choice.

Coombs IRV Winner(s): tomato

Round 1

Explanation

Coombs' method, works almost exactly the same way as typical IRV, but instead of eliminating the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes, you elimate the candidate with the most last-choice votes each round.

Front and Back IRV Winner(s): turquoise

Round 1

Explanation

While studying these methods, I thought, why not have the best of both worlds and combine Coombs and regular RCV? With this method, each round we take the number of first-choice votes and subtract the number of last-choice votes for each candidate. Then we eliminate based on the resulting scores.

Heavily inspired by Nicky Cases's similar work To Build a Better Ballot.