Elections With Three Candidates: An Interactive Introduction

When an election involves three candidates, there are many different ways to determine a winner. In many situations, these methods can conflict or contradict each other. In these pages, we will explore several of these methods. Each page contains an interactive diagram for you to use in your explorations. These diagrams use Macromedia Shockwave.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Plurality
3. Anti-Plurality
4. The Borda Count
5. The Positional Method
6. Pairwise Elections and the Condorcet Winner
7. Other Methods and Summary
8. Epilogue