 The most striking results  can be found in the work of Michael Regenwetter and his colleagues. They have analyzed datasets from a variety of elections, showing that many of the usual voting methods that are considered irreconcilable (e.g., Plurality Rule, Borda Count and the  Condorcet consistent methods from Section 3.1.1) are, in fact, in perfect agreement. This suggests that the “theoretical literature may promote overly pessimistic views about the likelihood of consensus among consensus methods” (Regenwetter et al. 2009, p. 840). See Regenwetter et al. 2006 for an introduction to the methods used in these analyses and Regenwetter et al. 2009 for the current state-of-the-art.  