Instant-runoff voting: Difference between revisions
link to Sankey diagram
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D [[Pairwise beat|pairwise wins]] against all others, and had 9 out of the 22 active votes = 40.9%, greater than 1/3rd, at that time. So there was no need to eliminate C at that point to find the winner.
There are two ways to make a diagram detailing an IRV result. The first is generally to create a [[W:Sankey
Note that when the top candidate doesn't have a majority, but the top two candidates each have over 1/3rd of the active votes (i.e. they combinedly have over 2/3rds), they are guaranteed to be the two final remaining candidates in IRV, so all other candidates can be eliminated (or equivalently, the pairwise matchup between the two can be tallied) to find the result.
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