3 papers
econ.GN2026
Can ranked-choice voting elect the least popular candidate?
David McCune, Jennifer Wilson
We analyze how frequently instant runoff voting (IRV) selects the weakest (or least popular) candidate in three-candidate elections. We consider four definitions of ``weakest candi…
cs.GT2025
Proportionality in Practice: Quantifying Proportionality in Ordinal Elections
Tuva Bardal, Markus Brill, David McCune +1
Proportional representation plays a crucial role in electoral systems. In ordinal elections, where voters rank candidates based on their preferences, the Single Transferable Vote (…
econ.GN2024
Single Transferable Vote and Paradoxes of Negative and Positive Involvement
David McCune
We analyze a type of voting paradox which we term an involvement paradox, in which a candidate who loses an election could be made into a winner if more of the candidate's non-supp…