Data-visualizations based on the ranked choice vote in New York City’s Democratic Mayoral primary offer insights about the prospects for election process reform in the United States.
Burlington Vermont’s 2009 Mayoral race provides a great example for visualizing the results of ranked choice elections. It’s the most consequential real-world case where a Condorcet winner beat a runoff winner (the legally elected winner), but where both beat the plurality winner. If you like controversy, you’ve come to the right dataset. There’s more about…
Voters in America’s biggest city are in store for a novel experience. By adopting ranked choice voting for their upcoming municipal elections, they’ll be piloting a relatively new model for fulfilling the chores of democratic citizenship in the United States.
Here’s a video I created to illustrate how things played out in for a memorably controversial ranked choice election in Burlington Vermont, in 2009. It includes a Sankey chart of the Instant Runoff, plus data visualizations of tabulations using both the Borda and Condorcet methods.
