What is the connection between the Condorcet winner and strategy?
In most methods it is possible, if not practical, for a majority of people to get a chosen candidate elected. For methods meeting the Majority Criterion, this can be done if the majority ranks their chosen candidate first. For methods like Average ratings, the majority can give their chosen candidate the highest rating, and all others the lowest. Note that if a majority does this, it is not possible for the minority to change the result, even with strategic voting. If their is a Condorcet winner for the voter’s sincere preferences, and this candidate does not win, then by definition, a majority of the voters prefer this candidate to the winner. As I have explained, this majority could have used strategy to get a result that would have been favourable to all its members. We can therefore conclude that when the Condorcet winner loses in any of these methods, even those that do not meet the Condorcet criterion, it is because voters did not have enough information or were unwilling to use
