Borda count

The Borda count is a voting system used for single-winner elections in which each voter rank-orders the candidates.

Current Uses of the Borda count

The Borda count is popular in determining awards for sports in the United States. It is used in determining the Most Valuable Player in Major League Baseball, by the Associated Press and United Press International to rank players in NCAA sports, and other contests. The Eurovision Song Contest also uses a positional voting method similar to the Borda count, with a different distribution of points. It is used for wine trophy judging by the Australian Society of Viticulture and Oenology. Borda count is used by the RoboCup robot competition at the Center for Computing Technologies, University of Bremen in Germany.

Related Topics:
United States - Most Valuable Player - Major League Baseball - Associated Press - United Press International - NCAA - Eurovision Song Contest - Wine - Australian Society of Viticulture and Oenology - RoboCup - Robot - University of Bremen - Germany

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The Borda count has historical precedent in political usage as it was one of the voting methods employed in the Roman Senate beginning around the year 105. The Borda count is presently used for the election of ethnic minority members of parliament in Slovenia. In modified versions it is also used to elect members of parliament for the central Pacific island of Nauru (using a different positional point system) and for the selection of Presidential election candidates from among members of parliament in neighbouring Kiribati. The Borda count and variations have been used in Northern Ireland for non-electoral purposes, such as to achieve a consensus between participants including members of Sinn Féin, the Ulster Unionists, and the political wing of the UDA.

Related Topics:
Roman Senate - 105 - Slovenia - Nauru - Kiribati - Northern Ireland - Sinn Féin - Ulster Unionists - UDA

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Borda is used in a number of educational institutions in the United States, such as at the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts to elect the Student Government, to elect the Michigan Student Assembly for the university at large, at the University of Missouri Graduate-Professional Council to elect its officers, at the University of California Los Angeles Graduate Student Association to elect its officers, the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard University to elect its officers, at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale to elect officers to the Faculty Senate, and at Arizona State University to elect officers to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics assembly. It is used to elect faculty members to committees at Wheaton College, Massachusetts. Borda count is used to break ties for member elections of the faculty personnel committee of the School of Business Administration at the College of William and Mary.

Related Topics:
United States - University of Michigan - University of Missouri - University of California Los Angeles - Harvard University - Southern Illinois University - Carbondale - Arizona State University - Wheaton College, Massachusetts - College of William and Mary

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In professional societies, the Borda count is used to elect the Board of Governors of the International Society for Cryobiology, the management committee of Tempo sustainable design network, located in Cornwall, United Kingdom, and to elect members to Research Area Committees of the U.S. Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative.

Related Topics:
International Society for Cryobiology - Tempo sustainable design network - Cornwall - United Kingdom - U.S. Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative

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Borda count is one of the feature selection methods used by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board.

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Borda count is one of the voting methods used and advocated by the Florida affiliate of the American Patriot Party. See here and here.

Related Topics:
Florida - American Patriot Party

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