DemoChoice Web Poll: ASUC 2004 Student Advocate Election (UC Berkeley)

1 candidate will be elected with 4,890 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
DAVE MADAN (Incumbent), Independent  Chart color  1,681  (34.4%)   
RONALD CRUZ, Defend Affirmative Action Party (DAAP)  Chart color  1,278  (26.1%)   
Zein Obagi, Jr., BEARS-United  Chart color  1,000  (20.4%)   
KEVIN 'ALMOST QUALIFIED' DEENIHAN, SQUELCH!  Chart color  632  (12.9%)   
VIVIEN 'PALPATINE' LEE, Independent  Chart color  299  (6.1%)  Defeated
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In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
The last-place candidate (VIVIEN 'PALPATINE' LEE, Independent) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: ASUC 2004 Student Advocate Election (UC Berkeley)

1 candidate will be elected with 4,890 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
DAVE MADAN (Incumbent), Independent  Chart color  1,738  (36.6%)   
RONALD CRUZ, Defend Affirmative Action Party (DAAP)  Chart color  1,301  (27.4%)   
Zein Obagi, Jr., BEARS-United  Chart color  1,033  (21.8%)   
KEVIN 'ALMOST QUALIFIED' DEENIHAN, SQUELCH!  Chart color  675  (14.2%)  Defeated
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The last-place candidate (KEVIN 'ALMOST QUALIFIED' DEENIHAN, SQUELCH!) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: ASUC 2004 Student Advocate Election (UC Berkeley)

1 candidate will be elected with 4,890 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
DAVE MADAN (Incumbent), Independent  Chart color  1,893  (43.5%)   
RONALD CRUZ, Defend Affirmative Action Party (DAAP)  Chart color  1,347  (31.0%)   
Zein Obagi, Jr., BEARS-United  Chart color  1,109  (25.5%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Zein Obagi, Jr., BEARS-United) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: ASUC 2004 Student Advocate Election (UC Berkeley)

1 candidate will be elected with 4,890 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
DAVE MADAN (Incumbent), Independent  Chart color  2,163  (58.7%)  Elected
RONALD CRUZ, Defend Affirmative Action Party (DAAP)  Chart color  1,523  (41.3%)  Defeated
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DAVE MADAN (Incumbent), Independent has enough votes to guarantee victory (50%) and is declared a winner.

In the end, 44.2% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 34.4% if only the first-round votes were used.

Also, view the Ballot Depth info to see how much lower rankings contributed to the tally.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: ASUC 2004 Student Advocate Election (UC Berkeley)

1 candidate will be elected with 4,890 ballots cast.


Ballot Depth

This shows how much the lower rankings on ballots contributed to the winning candidate.

Rank Fraction of votes for winner
1st    77.7% 
2nd    15.0% 
3rd    5.1% 
4th    2.1% 
Pie chart