Graduated majority judgment

Graduated majority judgment (GMJ), sometimes called the usual judgment or continuous Bucklin voting, is a single-winner electoral system first suggested as an improvement on majority judgment by Jameson Quinn and later independently by the French social scientist Adrien Fabre in 2019. It is a highest median voting rule, a system of cardinal voting in which the winner is decided by the median rating rather than the mean.

GMJ begins by counting all ballots for their first choice. If no candidate has a majority then later (second, third, etc.) preferences are added to first preferences until one candidate reaches 50% of the vote. The first candidate to reach a majority of the vote is the winner.