Condorcet
Noun
Meaning
French mathematician and philosopher (1743-1794)
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A candidate with that property is called a Condorcet winner.
Advocates of Condorcet methods argue that a candidate can claim to have majority support only if they are the "Condorcet winner" that is, the candidate who would beat every other candidate in a series of one-on-one elections.
A Condorcet winner doesn't always exist because majority preferences can be like rock-paper-scissors : for each candidate, there can be another that is preferred by some majority (this is known as Condorcet paradox ).
As a result, the winner is Memphis, the Condorcet loser, with Chattanooga coming in second place.
As noted above, if there is no Condorcet winner a further method must be used to find the winner of the election, and this mechanism varies from one Condorcet method to another.
A voting system that always elects the Condorcet winner when there is one is described by electoral scientists as a system that satisfies the Condorcet criterion.