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These type of contrived examples appear to occur rarely in practice. I would love to see some bootstrap simulations on real IRV elections results to see how sen
by danieltillett 11y ago
These type of contrived examples appear to occur rarely in practice. I would love to see some bootstrap simulations on real IRV elections results to see how sensitive IRV is to these pathological outcomes. Most of the time you are only interested in which of the major candidates gets your second choice.
- aninhumer 11y agoI don't know if they're that contrived. The scenario is that you have a closely matched two party system (as most FPTP places do) and a third party which is close in popularity to one of the mainstream ones on first votes, but is not universally supported by the remaining mainstream voters over the other mainstream party. That doesn't just sound plausible, it sounds like exactly the pattern of growth for a third party that you'd expect.