Dodgson's method

English

Etymology

Named after mathematician Charles Dodgson.

Proper noun

Dodgson's method

1. A voting system by which each voter submits an ordered list of all candidates according to personal preference (from best to worst). The winner is the candidate for whom we need to perform the minimum number of pairwise swaps (added over all candidates) before they become a winner according to the Condorcet method.