Welcome to votingmethods.net

This is the election methods website of Kevin Venzke. The content is mostly theory, and mostly related to single-winner rank ballot methods. I hope readers may find it interesting.

I follow the election-methods mailing list. Read it from the beginning here.

Interactive content:
Rank Ballot Election Calculator – results for 40+ methods, of all sorts, without resolution details.
Condorcet Calculator – demonstrating the main Condorcet methods using winning votes.
Condorcet Cycle Checker – a tool for method designers concerned about favorite betrayal.
Later-No-Harm Method Calculator – an exhibition of the methods satisfying Douglas Woodall's Later-no-harm property.
Miscellaneous Method Calculator – some nice methods satisfying neither Condorcet nor Later-no-harm.
Condorcet Compromise Extension – a proposal extending Condorcet in line with a typical motivating argument for Condorcet.
Who is the median voter? – speculations on identifying this hypothetical voter from cast votes.

Other topics:
STV Calculator – a multi-winner PR-STV tool with some helpful resolution details.
Finding the center-most voters – a possibility of incentivizing a group to identify their ideological center.

Historical content:
Election methods and criteria – My webpage from 2005, content left as is, except for some 2023 commentary in square brackets where I couldn't help myself.

Terms, disclaimers
Please use this site at your own risk. I can't guarantee that interactive functions won't crash your browser.
I collect no info about your usage except through the site visit counter.
Don't rehost this material elsewhere or repurpose the content. (Though if this site goes permanently offline, you can rehost. Nice of you to consider it.)
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