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If instead of rankings, you asked each tribe ''how much'' they liked each candidate, they would give their own tribe's candidate the highest rating, candidate D a high rating, and the other tribes' candidates the lowest rating. So D would have the highest overall approval rating (say, 60-80%), since they're supported by all of the tribes, vs the 33% approval rating for each of the tribes' own candidates. It's pretty clear that D would also be the best winner if based on approval ratings.
So D is both the [[Condorcet winner|most-''preferred'' candidate]] and the [[Utilitarian winner|most-''approved'' candidate]].
Yet, if this nation used any of the common voting systems used in real-world elections, D would be eliminated immediately, since they got zero first-preference votes:
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All of these systems would then eliminate A and B, leaving C as the winner (by 1 vote), despite 2/3 of the population listing C ''last'' on their ballots.
Is this a good result? Is this democratic? Will relations between the tribes become better or worse after C wins? Which candidate was the best representative of the nation as a whole?
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