Voting criteria

There are a number of different criteria which can be used for voting systems in an election:

• Condorcet criterion
• Condorcet loser criterion
• Consistency criterion
• Homogeneity criterion
• Independence of clones criterion
• Independence of irrelevant alternatives
• Independence of Smith-dominated alternatives
• Later-no-harm criterion
• Later-no-help criterion
• Majority criterion
• Majority loser criterion
• Monotonicity criterion
• Mutual majority criterion
• Participation criterion
• Plurality criterion
• Resolvability criterion
• Reversal symmetry
• Schwartz Criterion, requiring that the winner is chosen from the Schwartz set
• Smith criterion

See also

• Voting system
• Experimental metrics
• Comparison of electoral systems