Elimination

Elimination is a feature of many voting methods, most commonly RCV, in which some candidate(s) are removed from the election, usually permanently (i.e. they lose).

See Category:Sequential loser-elimination methods.

Example

It should be noted that usually elimination means that the voting method's functioning after eliminating a candidate can be evaluated identically to an election under that voting method where said candidate had never run. For example:

3 A>B
48 B
49 C

If A is eliminated, then B wins in any elimination-based method passing the majority criterion. This is because if A hadn't run at all, then the the election would've been

51 B  
49 C

and B would've been preferred as 1st choice by 51 of the 100 voters.