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Note that the yellow "Condorcet region" always contains the overall consensus (the origin of the space), and the Condorcet winner is the closest candidate to the population consensus under all of these examples. But this is not in general true.
In real life elections, we have no information about this abstract ideological space. All we have are the ballots and election results. Nevertheless, such illustrations are helpful to understand what sort of representation is achieved by different voting methods under different scenarios
As we can see, the Condorcet winner is a good proxy for the ideological consensus of a population, even though it may favor a majority faction too much under polarization (as shown in the middle-right example).
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