Condorcet Method - Use of Condorcet Voting

Use of Condorcet Voting

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 U.S. town of Marquette, Michigan in the 1920s, and today Condorcet methods are used by a number of private organizations. Organizations which currently use some variant of the Condorcet method are:

• The Wikimedia Foundation uses the Schulze method to elect its Board of Trustees
• The Pirate Party of Sweden uses the Schulze method for its primaries
• The Debian project uses the Schulze method for internal referenda and to elect its leader
• The Software in the Public Interest corporation uses the Schulze method for internal referenda and to elect its Board of Directors
• The Gentoo Foundation uses the Schulze method for internal referenda and to elect its Board of Trustees and its Council
• The Free State Project used Minimax for choosing its target state
• The uk.* hierarchy of Usenet
• The Student Society of the University of British Columbia uses ranked pairs for its executive elections.
• Kingman Hall, a student housing cooperative, uses the Schulze method for its elections
• TheDemocrat.co.uk uses Copeland's method to elect content for publishing via a web newspaper format.