Condorcet//FPTP

Condorcet//FPTP is a voting method which elects the Condorcet winner if one exists, but otherwise elects the candidate with the most 1st choices (the FPTP winner). It is arguably the simplest possible Condorcet method, even when compared to methods like Minimax and Condorcet-cardinal hybrids.

When a voter equally ranks multiple candidates 1st, this can either be interpreted as each of those candidates receiving one 1st choice vote, or as each of them receiving an equal fraction of one 1st choice vote. The former interpretation is equivalent to Approval voting, the latter to cumulative voting.

Most Condorcet advocates would likely at the very least prefer the similar, but more complicated Condorcet//Approval and Smith//Score methods, as their cycle resolution methods are less prone to the spoiler effect.

Smith//FPTP is where the candidate with the most 1st choices in the Smith set wins.