Simulating the Impacts of Ranked Choice Voting on the 2020 Congressional Election

• In Event: Ranked Choice Voting

Brief Overview

Using a novel method of ideal point estimation for congressional candidates, this paper simulates voter preferences across primaries for the 2020 election, allowing us to estimate winners under counterfactual ranked choice and Condorcet Voting.

Authors

• Michael A. Bailey, Georgetown University

• Theodore Allen Landsman, Georgetown University

• Hans C. Noel, Georgetown University