Editing Condorcet method (section)

==Use of Condorcet voting==
[[Image:Voting2.png|thumb|right|sample ballot for Wikimedia's Board of Trustees elections]]
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 [[United States|U.S.]] town of [[Marquette, Michigan]] in the 1920s,<ref>{{Citation | place = UK | url = http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Politics/papers/2002/w23/mclean.pdf | title = Australian electoral reform and two concepts of representation | publisher = Ox | type = paper | last = McLean | year = 2002 | access-date = 2015-06-27}}</ref> and today Condorcet methods are used by a number of political parties and private organizations.

In Vermont, Bill H.424<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bill Status H.424 |url=https://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/status/2024/H.424 |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=legislature.vermont.gov}}</ref> would enable towns, cities, and villages to adopt a Condorcet-based voting system for single-seat office elections through a majority vote at a town meeting. The system first checks for a majority winner among first preferences. If none,  pairwise Condorcet comparisons are counted and the Condorcet winner is elected.  If none, it resorts to a first-past-the-post tiebreaker. Once adopted, the system remains in effect until the community decides to revert to a previous method or another system through a subsequent town meeting vote.

Organizations which currently use some variant of the Condorcet method are:

* The [[Libertarian Party of Washington]] allows for a Condorcet method, in addition to other systems<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 26, 2022 |title=Constitution of the Libertarian Party of Washington State |url=https://lpwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/LPWA_Constitution_updated_at_convention_26March2022.pdf#page=10 |page=10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220914201737/https://lpwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/LPWA_Constitution_updated_at_convention_26March2022.pdf |archive-date=2022-09-14 |url-status=live |website=Libertarian Party of Washington |quote=then the vote shall be performed using either a Condorcet voting system or a score voting system, as the participants shall decide}}</ref>
* The [[Free State Project]] used [[Minimax Condorcet|Minimax]] for choosing its target state
* The [[United Kingdom|uk]].* hierarchy of [[Usenet]] uses a Condorcet method<ref>{{Cite web |title=Guidelines for Group Creation for uk.* |url=http://www.usenet.org.uk/voting.html |access-date=2024-12-13 |website=www.usenet.org.uk |quote=For a vote between several mutually exclusive options, the votetaking organisation will establish, for each possible pair of options A and B, how many voters prefer A over B and vice versa. … The method of determining the result when there are several mutually exclusive options, as described in paragraph 4 of The Result, is essentially that devised by the French mathematician the Marquis de Condorcet (1743-94).}}</ref>
* [[Baldwin's method]] was in use by the [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]] Dialectic Society around 1864.<ref name=":04">{{Cite journal |last=Nanson |first=E. J. |date=1882 |title=Methods of election |url=https://archive.org/details/transactionsproc1719roya/page/217/mode/1up |journal=Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria |volume=19 |pages=217}}</ref>
* Schulze method is used in many places.  Some examples:
** The [[Wikimedia Foundation]] used the [[Schulze method]] to elect its Board of Trustees until 2013, when it switched to a [[ratings ballot]] with Support/Neutral/Oppose ballots.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wikimedia Foundation elections 2013/Results – Meta |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013/Results |access-date=2017-01-23 |website=meta.wikimedia.org |language=en}}</ref>
** The [[Pirate Party (Sweden)|Pirate Party of Sweden]] uses the [[Schulze method]] for its primaries
** The [[Debian]] project uses the [[Schulze method]] for internal referendums and to elect its leader
** The [[Software in the Public Interest]] corporation uses the [[Schulze method]] for internal referendums and to elect its board of directors
** The [[Gentoo Linux|Gentoo Foundation]] uses the [[Schulze method]] for internal referendums and to elect its board of trustees and its council
** [[Kingman Hall]] and [[Hillegass Parker House]], two loosely affiliated [[student housing cooperative]]s, each use the [[Schulze method]] to elect their management teams.
** The [[Kubernetes]] community uses Elekto's implementation of the [[Schulze method]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Goldydocs |url=https://elekto.dev |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=Elekto |language=en}}</ref>
** ''The [[Schulze method#Usage|Schulze method]] article has a longer list of users of that method.''