Borda count

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

Procedures

Each voter rank-orders all the candidates on their ballot. If there are n candidates in the election, then the first-place candidate on a ballot receives n-1 points, the second-place candidate receives n-2, and in general the candidate in ith place receives n-i points. The candidate ranked last on the ballot therefore receives zero points.

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The points are added up across all the ballots, and the candidate with the most points is the winner.

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