Skip to main content
. 2008 Dec 12;364(1518):833–843. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0259

Table 3.

Behavioural social choice analysis of 1998–2005 APA presidential election data, each with five candidates and tens of thousands of voters. (We report results from the WO model (WO) and the Zwicker model (ZW). The WO results for 1998–2001 have appeared in Regenwetter et al. (2007b), all others are new. Social orders with bootstrapped confidence ≥98% are in italics. The order 31524 indicates that candidate 3 is the winner, followed by candidates 1, 5 and 2, whereas 4 is the loser.)

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Condorcet
WO 32145 (0.9) 43215 (0.6) 52134 53124 (0.7) 54213 (0.7) 42531 41532 21453
ZW 32415 (0.8) 43215 (0.8) 52134 51324 54123 (0.9) 42531 41532 21453 (0.7)
Borda
WO 32145 43125 (0.9) 52134 53124 54213 42531 41532 21453 (0.9)
ZW 32415 (0.6) 43215 (0.9) 52134 51324 54123 42531 41532 21453 (0.8)
plurality
WO 35124 (0.7) 43152 (0.8) 53214 (0.7) 53124 54213 (0.8) 42351 41352 12543
ZW 31524 43125 (0.5) 52314 (0.9) 53124 54213 42351 41352 12543 (0.02)