Hello, I added a function on my website which tries to arrange voters and candidates on a 2D spectrum, based on submitted rankings (or random ones). You can see it at: votingmethods.net/median If you for example enter ballots that look suggestive of a 1D spectrum: 10 A>B>C>D>E 10 B>A>C>D>E 10 C>D>B>A>E 10 D>C>E>B>A 10 E>D>C>B>A You may very well get an arrangement of voters that looks like a line. If you enter a basic cycle: 33 A>B>C 33 B>C>A 33 C>A>B The voters and candidates will be drawn roughly in a circle. I draw two gray lines to try to find the center of gravity of the plot, although this may not give a consistent result, and indeed may not land on any voter (contrary to the premise of the page). Kevin