I was playing with Google Trends the other day, and tried to give it some election method terms, eventually ending up on this: https://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore?q=instant%20runoff,approval%20voting,condorcet%20method,alternative%20vote,borda%20count IRV, Approval, and the UK phrasing of IRV (Alternative Vote) all seem to have spikes in interest around electoral events like the US presidential elections and the UK parliamentary election. Oddly, it also seems like people in the UK are more interested in other voting systems than US ones are, since the activity for alternative vote is greater than for IRV. It's hard to see much of a pattern in either "borda count" or "condorcet method", so those probably aren't as widely known. Perhaps Condorcet needs a short "X voting" name too :-) Here's a closer look at Range vs Approval vs IRV: https://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore?q=approval%20voting,instant%20runoff,range%20voting Doesn't seem to be too bad. Approval voting has the greatest average interest, while Range seems to have the tallest spikes. I'm not sure how useful this information is, but I just thought I'd mention it :-)

FYI - you'll want to use the search term "ranked choice voting" since that is the umbrella term Fairvote uses in the US to promote both IRV (which was adopted by ballot initiative in the state of Maine in November) and STV. Erik