Douglas Woodall

Douglas Woodall is a psephologist born in November 1943 in w: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.

Footnotes

• Woodall's homepage: https://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/plp/pmadw/
• Note: Woodall's homepage may or may not have been created with Woodall's method
• Papers written by Woodall for Voting Matters:
  1. Computer counting in STV elections Issue 1, p11-12 https://www.votingmatters.org.uk/ISSUE1/P3.HTM
  2. Properties of Preferential Election Rules Issue 3, p8-15 https://www.votingmatters.org.uk/ISSUE3/P5.HTM
  3. Monotonicity - An In-Depth Study of One Example Issue 4, p5-7 https://www.votingmatters.org.uk/ISSUE4/P5.HTM
  4. Monotonicity and Single-Seat Election Rules Issue 6, p9-14 https://www.votingmatters.org.uk/ISSUE6/P4.HTM
  5. QPQ, a quota-preferential STV-like election rule Issue 17, p1-7, PDF 92Kb https://www.votingmatters.org.uk/ISSUE17/I17P1.PDF