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{{Wikipedia|Minimax Condorcet method}}
In [[voting system]]s, the '''Minimax Condorcet method''' (often referred to as "'''the Minimax method'''" and sometimes as "'''minmax'''" or "'''min-max'''") is one of several [[Condorcet method]]s used for tabulating votes and determining a winner when using [[Ranked voting systems|ranked voting]] in a [[single-member district|single-winner]] election. It is sometimes referred to as the '''Simpson–Kramer method''',<ref name="Caplin">{{cite journal | last=Caplin | first=Andrew | last2=Nalebuff | first2=Barry | title=On 64%-Majority Rule | journal=Econometrica | publisher=[Wiley, Econometric Society] | volume=56 | issue=4 | year=1988 | issn=00129682 | jstor=1912699 | pages=787–814 | url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=c10e05dc6ea7cfa1ba1b28aa6c54e7abbf96eccc | access-date=2023-05-27}}</ref> and the '''successive reversal method'''.<ref name="Green-Armytage">{{cite web|url=http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2003-August/075781.html|title=the name of the rose|website=Election-methods mailing list archives|date=2003-08-04|last=Green-Armytage|first=J. }}</ref>▼
▲In [[voting system]]s, the '''Minimax Condorcet method''' (often referred to as "'''the Minimax method'''") is one of several [[Condorcet method]]s used for tabulating votes and determining a winner when using [[Ranked voting systems|ranked voting]] in a [[single-member district|single-winner]] election. It is sometimes referred to as the '''Simpson–Kramer method''',<ref name="Caplin">{{cite journal | last=Caplin | first=Andrew | last2=Nalebuff | first2=Barry | title=On 64%-Majority Rule | journal=Econometrica | publisher=[Wiley, Econometric Society] | volume=56 | issue=4 | year=1988 | issn=00129682 | jstor=1912699 | pages=787–814 | url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=c10e05dc6ea7cfa1ba1b28aa6c54e7abbf96eccc | access-date=2023-05-27}}</ref> and the '''successive reversal method'''.<ref name="Green-Armytage">{{cite web|url=http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2003-August/075781.html|title=the name of the rose|website=Election-methods mailing list archives|date=2003-08-04|last=Green-Armytage|first=J. }}</ref>
Minimax selects as the winner the candidate whose greatest pairwise defeat is smaller than the greatest pairwise defeat of any other candidate: or, put another way, "the only candidate whose support never drops below [N] percent" in any pairwise contest.<ref>The introduction to this article was initially coped from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minimax_Condorcet_method&oldid=1156877070</ref>
== Variants ==
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