Excursions in Modern Mathematics (9th Edition)
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Author: Peter Tannenbaum
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 1, Problem 39E
Top-Two Instant-Runoff Voting. Exercises 39 and 40 refer to a simple variation of the plurality-with-elimination method called top-two IRV. This method works for winner-only elections. In top-two IRV, instead of eliminating candidates one at a time, we eliminate all the candidates except the top two in the first round and transfer their votes to the two remaining candidates.
Find the winner of the election given in Table 1-39 using the top-two IRV method.
Table 1-39
| Number of Voters | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| 1st | B | C | A | D | A | D |
| 2nd | E | E | B | C | D | B |
| 3rd | A | D | C | B | E | C |
| 4th | C | A | D | E | C | A |
| 5th | D | B | E | A | B | E |
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