There was some mention here earlier about the pairwise voting system that the Debian Project (http://www.debian.org) uses to choose their Project Leader. The preliminary election results have been announced, so I thought I'd post them here in case anyone is interested. It's not often that we have *actual* election data from a pairwise count to analyse! Apply your favourite counting method and let us know if you find anything interesting. ***** To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Results] Leader Election 2000 (preliminary) From: Debian Project Secretary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 17 Mar 2000 00:47:05 -0000 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Choice #1: Wichert Akkerman is prefered to Choice #2: Joel Klecker (114-22) is prefered to Choice #3: Ben Collins (133-39) is prefered to Choice #4: Matthew Vernon (117-17) is prefered to Choice #5: Further Discussion (113-7) Choice #2: Joel Klecker is prefered to Choice #4: Matthew Vernon (63-54) is prefered to Choice #5: Further Discussion (66-31) Choice #3: Ben Collins is prefered to Choice #2: Joel Klecker (92-33) is prefered to Choice #4: Matthew Vernon (92-33) is prefered to Choice #5: Further Discussion (89-15) Choice #4: Matthew Vernon is prefered to Choice #5: Further Discussion (70-23) Choice #5: Further Discussion The winner is Wichert, followed by Ben, Joel, Matthew and finally, Further Discussion. These results have not been checked against the hand count but I thought you'd all like the exit poll results ;) ***** As you can see, the Debian Project's voters must have approved of the choice of candidates, since "Further Discussion" was the Condorcet Loser. The incumbent (Wichert Akkerman) was the Condorcet Winner by a fairly wide margin. -- Norm Petry
