diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 053f3d44..8ad7ee0e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 ### Description
 The minimum PHP version is now 8.3
 
+### Added
+- CondorcetElectionFormat object can be created directly from a string input instead of only SplFileInfo object.
+
 #### Dev
 - Complete the migration to Pest PHP
 
diff --git a/src/Tools/Converters/CEF/CondorcetElectionFormat.php b/src/Tools/Converters/CEF/CondorcetElectionFormat.php
index 1a85d362..de861281 100644
--- a/src/Tools/Converters/CEF/CondorcetElectionFormat.php
+++ b/src/Tools/Converters/CEF/CondorcetElectionFormat.php
@@ -11,10 +11,11 @@
 
 namespace CondorcetPHP\Condorcet\Tools\Converters\CEF;
 
-use CondorcetPHP\Condorcet\{Candidate, Election};
+use CondorcetPHP\Condorcet\Election;
 use CondorcetPHP\Condorcet\Dev\CondorcetDocumentationGenerator\CondorcetDocAttributes\{Description, FunctionParameter, FunctionReturn, PublicAPI, Related};
 use CondorcetPHP\Condorcet\Throwable\FileDoesNotExistException;
 use CondorcetPHP\Condorcet\Tools\Converters\Interface\{ConverterExport, ConverterImport};
+use SplTempFileObject;
 
 class CondorcetElectionFormat implements ConverterExport, ConverterImport
 {
@@ -75,6 +76,16 @@ public static function createFromElection(
         return ($file) ? null : $r;
     }
 
+    #[PublicAPI]
+    #[Description("Create a CondorcetElectionFormat object from string.\n")]
+    public static function createFromString(string $input): self
+    {
+        $file = new SplTempFileObject;
+        $file->fwrite($input);
+
+        return new self ($file);
+    }
+
     public static function boolParser(string $parse): bool
     {
         return match (mb_strtolower($parse)) {
diff --git a/tests/src/Tools/Converters/CEF/CondorcetElectionFormatTest.php b/tests/src/Tools/Converters/CEF/CondorcetElectionFormatTest.php
index 12677fce..df091473 100644
--- a/tests/src/Tools/Converters/CEF/CondorcetElectionFormatTest.php
+++ b/tests/src/Tools/Converters/CEF/CondorcetElectionFormatTest.php
@@ -335,8 +335,7 @@
 });
 
 test('candidates from votes', function (): void {
-    $file = new SplTempFileObject;
-    $file->fwrite($input =  <<<'CVOTES'
+    $cef = CondorcetElectionFormat::createFromString(<<<'CVOTES'
         #/Number of Seats: 42
         #/Implicit Ranking: false
         #/Weight Allowed: false
@@ -349,8 +348,6 @@
         D>A>B>C>E>F
         CVOTES);
 
-    $cef = new CondorcetElectionFormat($file);
-
     expect($cef->candidates)->toBe(['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F']);
     expect($cef->CandidatesParsedFromVotes)->toBeTrue();
 
@@ -371,7 +368,7 @@
 
 test('non standard parameters', function (): void {
     $file = new SplTempFileObject;
-    $file->fwrite($input =  <<<'CVOTES'
+    $file->fwrite(<<<'CVOTES'
         #/Number Of Seats: 42
         #/Implicit Ranking: tRue
         #/Weight Allowed: false