A big shift in policies might follow. Candidate B still passes every pairwise test so she would still win under the Condorcet rule. Voting rules work the same if voters are concerned with issues that do not fit neatly along the left-right dimension. The picture at left looks down on a field of people. We see only their little round heads.
Candidates are the ones with big heads.
The voting rules show their characteristic patterns even if the voters are somewhat polarized into 2 groups with B getting only one or two first-choice votes. PoliticalSim may be downloaded here . The ballot-design page shows how preference ballots let voters rank the candidates as first choice, second choice, and so on. The tally-table page tells how ballots are tallied and candidates are compared. But voters don't need to count the ballots.