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'''VoteFair representation ranking''' is a
This method can be repeated, such as to select the winners of the second and fourth seats in a five-seat district.
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* 26% of the ballots rank the most popular candidate (Nashville) as their first choice.
* Looking at only
* 58% of the ballots rank Nashville higher than Memphis.
* 58% exceeds 50% (the minimum majority) by 8% (the excess beyond majority).
* 8% divided by 58% equals 0.1379 which is used as the weight for each of the 58% of the ballots that rank Nashville higher than Memphis.
* Full weight for the ballots that do '''not''' rank Nashville higher than Memphis, combined with a weight of 0.1379 (about 14%) for the remaining ballots (that do rank Nashville higher than Memphis), identifies (according to the [[Kemeny-Young Maximum Likelihood Method|Condorcet-Kemeny method]]) the most popular candidate to be Memphis.
Memphis is declared the winner of the second seat. This candidate represents the voters who are not well-represented by the first-seat winner (Nashville).
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