Why choose the Condorcet winner?
Condorcet advocates generally view this as a natural extension of majority rule. After all, if we do not choose the Condorcet winner, we must act against the majority opinion on one of these pairwise comparisons. It is also often argued that if a majority prefers one candidate to another, the winning candidate is more likely the better candidate. It follows that if one candidate is preferred to all others, this candidate is the best. Furthermore, if the alternatives available form a spectrum (for exactly from left to right) then the Condorcet winner represents the median of voting opinion. This is not necessarily the average position, but is the alternative with a majority saying they want this or an alternative to the left, and a different majority saying they want this or an alternative to the right. So, by one definition, the Condorcet winner is in the centre of political opinion, when a centre exists.
