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Smith set
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In voting systems, the Smith set is the smallest set of candidates in a particular election such that each member beats every other candidate outside the set in a pairwise election. Ideally, this set consists of only one candidate, the Condorcet winner. Conversely, an occurrence of Condorcet's paradox implies that the set has more than one member. See also Schwartz set, Directed Graph.
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