What different kinds of strategic voting are there?
Compromising- Voting for a less favoured candidate over a more favoured in the hopes of preventing an even worse candidate from being elected. All non-random methods are effected by this to some extent. The vote following the dash shows how a group of voters can improve the result by strategy. For IRV 45 A B C 20 B A C 35 C B A — B C A For those Condorcet methods which are equivalent to Minmax for three candidates 45 A B C 20 B C A — C B A 35 C A B For Average Ratings A B C 40 100 0 60 — 100 0 100 60 0 100 70 Burying- In this strategy you lower a candidate in the hopes of defeating it without electing someone worse. For example, For those Condorcet methods which are equivalent to Minmax for three candidates 45 A B C — A C B 20 B A C 35 C B A For Approval A B C 40 1 0 1 60 1 1 0 — 0 1 0 (assuming this groups preference is B>A>C) Push-over- Here, you raise a weak candidate in the hopes that this will help defeat a stronger enemy without actually winning. From IRV 45 A B C — 39 A B
