It can have strange results when there isn’t a clear moderate. Canada uses it for a lot of leadership elections. What often happens is that a candidate nobody

It can have strange results when there isn’t a clear moderate. Canada uses it for a lot of leadership elections. What often happens is that a candidate nobody knows or really wants wins because they got picked so their vote wouldn’t go to the main competing candidate. So you get party leaders who nobody seriously examined as the more hardcore members just needed to park their votes.