politics, a spoiler is a losing candidate who affects the results of an election simply by participating, a situation that is called a spoiler effect. If a...

playoffs can affect other teams in the league as they play, often having a spoiler effect on teams still in contention for playoff spots. For example, a baseball...

September 26, 2023. "Spoilers: The Official Vulture Statutes of Limitations" at Vulture. Spoiler.io, a random-spoiler website The Movie Spoiler, a movie-description...

Look up Spoiler or spoiler in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Spoiler or Spoilers may refer to: Spoiler (media), a summary that reveals significant plot...

Since "spoiler" is a term describing an application, the operation of a spoiler varies depending on the particular effect it is trying to spoil. Standard...

of spoilers often gives rise to suspicions that manipulation of the slate has taken place. The spoiler may have received incentives to run. A spoiler may...

tip the balance and change the outcome of the election by creating a spoiler effect. Many U.S. states and municipalities allow for write-in votes in a partisan...

that these would reduce the need for tactical voting and reduce the spoiler effect. Examples include preferential voting systems, such as instant runoff...

the most spoiler-resistant class of ranked voting systems: whenever it is possible for some ranked voting system to avoid a spoiler effect, a Condorcet...

and their resistance to the spoiler effect becomes a more complex matter. Some rated methods are immune to the spoiler effect when every voter rates the...

from Republican donors and Trump allies who believed he would serve as a spoiler for Biden. His campaign also received strong support and praise from various...

centrist candidate. Proponents of IRV claim that IRV eliminates the spoiler effect, since IRV makes it safe to vote honestly for marginal parties. Under...

demonstrates that every ranked voting algorithm is susceptible to the spoiler effect. Gibbard's theorem provides a closely-related corollary, that no voting...

Horng-En; Chen, Fang-Yu (2019). "Extreme Candidates as the Beneficent Spoiler? Range Effect in the Plurality Voting System". Political Research Quarterly. 72...

where any ranked voting system that respects majorities must have a spoiler effect. Suppose we have three candidates, A, B, and C, and that there are three...

identified all three rules as vulnerable to center squeeze, a kind of spoiler effect favoring extremists in crowded elections. The French system of ballotage...

impossibility theorem (showing that ranked voting cannot eliminate the spoiler effect) and Gibbard's theorem (showing it is impossible to design a straightforward...

of winning for a dissimilar candidate. This is commonly known as the spoiler effect, which can discourage minor party candidacies. Vote splitting most easily...

Adding more parties to the legislature can cause a bizarre kind of spoiler effect called the new state paradox. When Congress first admitted Oklahoma...

to ensure one of the majority-preferred candidates wins, creating a spoiler effect. By the majority criterion, a candidate C should win if a majority of...

Atkinson, Nathan; Foley, Edward B.; Ganz, Scott (2023). "Beyond the Spoiler Effect: Can Ranked Choice Voting Solve the Problem of Political Polarization...

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avoid another result like 2022 to ensure there was no center squeeze or spoiler effect, resulting in a traditional two-party race with two clear frontrunners...

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In aeronautics, a spoiler (sometimes called a lift spoiler or lift dumper) is a device which intentionally reduces the lift component of an airfoil in...

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However, the political fragmentation of parliaments has little causal effect on a number of dimensions of the quality of democracy. The veto player theory...

Double simultaneous vote Dual-vote Paradoxes and pathologies Spoiler effects Spoiler effect Cloning paradox Frustrated majorities paradox Center squeeze...

Ashton-under-Lyne by-election and subsequent by-elections, arguably had a spoiler effect in splitting the left-wing vote and allowing Conservative candidates...

Dennis Pyle, who was on the ballot as an independent, would have a spoiler effect benefiting Kelly. This was the first gubernatorial election in Kansas...