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with the likely most general interpretation of "vote ahead of" being "ranked or rated higher than".
 
== Notes ==
 
See the [[mutual majority criterion#Notes]] article for an example where a candidate preferred by a [[plurality]] of voters as their 1st choice who [[pairwise counting|pairwise beat]] all other candidates wasn't guaranteed to win under the majority criterion. The [[Condorcet criterion]] guarantees the election of such a candidate, by virtue of them pairwise beating all others.
 
[[Category:Voting theory]]