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[[File:Merrill 1984 Figure 3 Social-Utility Efficiency for a Random Society.svg|thumb|350x350px|Efficiency of several voting systems with an impartial culture model and 25 voters<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Merrill|first=Samuel|author-link=Samuel Merrill III|date=1984|title=A Comparison of Efficiency of Multicandidate Electoral Systems|journal=American Journal of Political Science|volume=28|issue=1|pages=23–48|doi=10.2307/2110786|issn=0092-5853|jstor=2110786}}</ref>]]
'''Social utility efficiency''' ('''SUE''') is a measurement of the [[Utilitarianism|utilitarian]] performance of [[Electoral system|voting methods]]—how likely they are to elect the candidate who best represents the voters' preferences."<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Weber|first=Robert J.|date=September 1978|title=Comparison of Public Choice Systems|url=https://cowles.yale.edu/publications/cfdp/cfdp-498|journal=Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers|publisher=Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics|volume=|pages=16, 38, 62|id=No. 498|via=}}</ref>
It is also known as '''utilitarian efficiency''',<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mueller, Dennis C.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191952945|title=Public choice III|date=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0-511-06504-3|location=Cambridge|oclc=191952945}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Duddy|first=Conal|date=2017|title=Geometry of run-off elections|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11127-017-0476-2|journal=Public Choice|language=en|volume=173|issue=3–4|pages=267–288|doi=10.1007/s11127-017-0476-2|s2cid=254935333 |issn=0048-5829|via=}}</ref> '''voter satisfaction index''' ('''VSI''')<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://rangevoting.org/vsi.html|title=Voter Satisfaction Index|last=Shentrup|first=Clay|date=2007-07-07|website=Center for Range Voting|access-date=2019-07-24|quote=Voter satisfaction index, or "VSI" for short (also called "social utility efficiency" ... a lower number is actually ''better'', and this can confuse people who are new to the concept. ... the utility units have an arbitrary magnitude, making it difficult to compare Bayesian regret figures}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Huang|first=John|date=January 11, 2020|title=Alternative Voting Methods — How well do they perform in the best case?|url=https://www.usa4r.org/2020/01/11/alternative-voting-methods-how-well-do-they-perform-in-the-best-case/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-31|website=Americans for Representation|language=en-US|quote=For this blog post, I’m going to stick with something called “Voter Satisfaction Index”.}}</ref> or '''voter satisfaction efficiency''' ('''VSE''').<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/VSE/|title=Voter Satisfaction Efficiency FAQ|last=Quinn|first=Jameson|date=2017-02-10|website=GitHub Pages|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-24}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite journal |last1=Wolk |first1=Sara |last2=Quinn |first2=Jameson |last3=Ogren |first3=Marcus |date=2023-03-20 |title=STAR Voting, equality of voice, and voter satisfaction: considerations for voting method reform |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10602-022-09389-3 |journal=Constitutional Political Economy |language=en |doi=10.1007/s10602-022-09389-3 |s2cid=257653868 |issn=1043-4062}}</ref>
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