Douglas Woodall

Douglas Woodall is a psephologist born in November 1943 in Stoke-on-Trent, England. He studied mathematics at Cambridge, and earned his Ph.D. at Nottingham in 1969. He devised the later-no-harm criterion, a voting system criterion that is considered important in the comparison of electoral systems. Woodall has done a lot of work exploring the monotonicity criterion. He also invented Woodall's method.