A Explaining the 2009 Burlington Mayoral Election Outcome

The following input profile is derived from election data of the 2009 mayoral election in Burlington, Vermont, which is known to exhibit interesting voting theoretic properties. One of them, James Simpson for the Green Party, gathered almost no votes (35 first-place votes compared to 1,306 first-place votes for the next-lowest candidate), so we ignore this candidate for convenience. The other four candidates are K = Bob Kiss M = Andy Montroll H = Dan Smith W = Kurt Wright. The resulting profile consists of the following 3,352 votes. For instance, the plurality winner (W) is different from the winner under Instant Runoff Voting rule (K) which Burlington used, and both are different from the Condorcet winner (M).