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The '''majority favorite criterion''' is a criterion for evaluating [[voting system]]s. It can be most simply thought of as "if a candidate would get >50% of the [[FPP]] vote, that candidate should win". In other words, if a majority selects a candidate as their unique 1st choice, this candidate must win.

The '''majority criterion''' or '''majority favorite criterion''' is a criterion for evaluating [[voting system]]s. It can be most simply thought of as "if a candidate would get >50% of the first preferences ([[FPP]] vote), that candidate should win". In other words, if a majority selects a candidate as their unique 1st choice, this candidate must win.<ref name="i696">{{cite journal | last=Schulze | first=Markus | title=A new monotonic, clone-independent, reversal symmetric, and condorcet-consistent single-winner election method | journal=Social Choice and Welfare | volume=36 | issue=2 | date=2011 | issn=0176-1714 | doi=10.1007/s00355-010-0475-4 | page=297|url=http://www.9mail.de/m-schulze/long.pdf}}</ref>

== Example ==

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Condorcet voting systems, by applying majority rule to all pairwise comparisons, are effectively looking for the most consistently approximately utilitarian candidate. This intuitively explains the better utilitarian performance of Condorcet systems under various numerical simulations.

== References ==

[[Category:Voting theory]]