Majority voting can elect a minority favourite. Ranked choice finds the option with the broadest genuine support — and Chooseday handles all the instant-runoff rounds automatically, with a full elimination breakdown so your team understands how the winner emerged.
If any of these feel familiar, Chooseday was built for you.
When 6 people split evenly across 3 options and 4 people support a 4th, majority voting elects the option only 4 people truly wanted. Ranked choice finds the option that 8 or 9 people can genuinely support.
Two similar options (Option A and Option B) each get 25% of votes, while Option C gets 30% and wins. But if A and B voters had been asked for their second choice, most would prefer each other over C. Ranked choice prevents this spoiler effect.
When the winner only got 28% of first-place votes, team members who backed other options feel overridden. Ranked choice produces a winner with majority support — which means real buy-in, not grudging acceptance.
Name your decision, add your options (works best with 4 or more), and select "Ranked choice" as the voting mode. Enable anonymous mode if needed.
Voters drag and drop options into their preferred order — 1st choice at the top, least preferred at the bottom. They can rank all options or stop partway through.
When voting closes (or reaches the deadline), Chooseday runs the instant-runoff algorithm: eliminates the last-place option, redistributes those votes, and repeats until one option has a majority.
Results show not just the winner but every elimination round — how votes shifted, which options were redistributed, and how the winner emerged. Complete transparency for complete buy-in.
Built specifically for group decisions — not adapted from a survey tool.
Participants rank options in intuitive drag-and-drop order. No numbered inputs, no confusion — just move options into the order you prefer.
Chooseday runs all elimination rounds automatically when voting closes. No manual calculation, no spreadsheet. The algorithm handles everything.
After voting closes, see exactly how many first-place votes each option had in every round, which options were eliminated, and how redistributed votes shifted the results.
Enable anonymous mode and individual rankings are completely hidden. Only aggregate results per round are shown — individual orderings are never exposed.
Ranked choice voting in Chooseday scales from a 3-person founding team to a 300-person organisation. Voters access the ranking page via a shareable link.
Ranked choice voting is not a premium feature. It's available on the free Chooseday plan with no voter limits and no expiry.
Teams across every industry — from startups to communities.
We always used to have the same fight at planning — the loudest person's option won. Ranked choice gave everyone a real say and the result actually had team buy-in.
The elimination round breakdown was the key thing for us. People could see exactly how the winner emerged, which meant nobody felt cheated.
We use ranked choice for quarterly priority-setting. It surfaces the option that most people can support, not the one that one vocal person pushed hardest for.
Automatic IRV rounds, anonymous rankings, full elimination breakdown. Free forever for small teams.