Some elected Peltola, and some elected Begich, the Condorcet winner.
I have heard the term "center squeeze" applied to the problem of a candidate who is too closely surrounded by competitors on either side along a left-right axis. It's an interesting question how to reduce the odds of such an outcome.
One outcome that was avoided was the election of a "Condorcet loser," someone who loses to the other major opponents. Palin was such a candidate.
Nice work by you here, and people like Ben Petschel need to be thanked at every opportunity.
But when you say "It's an interesting question how to reduce the odds of such an outcome.", I do not know what is interesting about a problem that is solved by a double nested loop comparing n candidates in n*(n-1)/2 match ups ...
However, I am naively assuming that voters will honestly rank the candidates - and there is currently great incentive NOT to do that.
I ran those ballots through a script that implements several dozen different ways of tabulating ranked choices. https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/28521-election
Some elected Peltola, and some elected Begich, the Condorcet winner.
I have heard the term "center squeeze" applied to the problem of a candidate who is too closely surrounded by competitors on either side along a left-right axis. It's an interesting question how to reduce the odds of such an outcome.
One outcome that was avoided was the election of a "Condorcet loser," someone who loses to the other major opponents. Palin was such a candidate.
Nice work by you here, and people like Ben Petschel need to be thanked at every opportunity.
But when you say "It's an interesting question how to reduce the odds of such an outcome.", I do not know what is interesting about a problem that is solved by a double nested loop comparing n candidates in n*(n-1)/2 match ups ...
However, I am naively assuming that voters will honestly rank the candidates - and there is currently great incentive NOT to do that.