DemoChoice Web Poll: ASUC 2005 Academic VP Election (UC Berkeley)

1 candidate will be elected with 5,884 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
JASON DIXSON (ASUC Senator), Student Action/UNITE-Greek/APPLE- Engineering  Chart color  2,634  (44.8%)   
BRANDON 'B' Safe SMITH, CalSERVE (Cal Students for Equal Rights & a Valid Education)  Chart color  2,088  (35.5%)   
ANDY 'BIG GAY HOMO' RATTO, SQUELCH!  Chart color  507  (8.6%)   
JOSIE HYMAN, Defend Affirmative Action Party (DAAP)  Chart color  372  (6.3%)   
MATT 'RED HUNTING HAT' WERNER, Independent  Chart color  283  (4.8%)  Defeated
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In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
The last-place candidate (MATT 'RED HUNTING HAT' WERNER, Independent) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: ASUC 2005 Academic VP Election (UC Berkeley)

1 candidate will be elected with 5,884 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
JASON DIXSON (ASUC Senator), Student Action/UNITE-Greek/APPLE- Engineering  Chart color  2,690  (46.7%)   
BRANDON 'B' Safe SMITH, CalSERVE (Cal Students for Equal Rights & a Valid Education)  Chart color  2,132  (37.0%)   
ANDY 'BIG GAY HOMO' RATTO, SQUELCH!  Chart color  552  (9.6%)   
JOSIE HYMAN, Defend Affirmative Action Party (DAAP)  Chart color  383  (6.7%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (JOSIE HYMAN, Defend Affirmative Action Party (DAAP)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: ASUC 2005 Academic VP Election (UC Berkeley)

1 candidate will be elected with 5,884 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
JASON DIXSON (ASUC Senator), Student Action/UNITE-Greek/APPLE- Engineering  Chart color  2,722  (48.4%)   
BRANDON 'B' Safe SMITH, CalSERVE (Cal Students for Equal Rights & a Valid Education)  Chart color  2,316  (41.2%)   
ANDY 'BIG GAY HOMO' RATTO, SQUELCH!  Chart color  588  (10.5%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (ANDY 'BIG GAY HOMO' RATTO, SQUELCH!) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: ASUC 2005 Academic VP Election (UC Berkeley)

1 candidate will be elected with 5,884 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
JASON DIXSON (ASUC Senator), Student Action/UNITE-Greek/APPLE- Engineering  Chart color  2,906  (54.5%)  Elected
BRANDON 'B' Safe SMITH, CalSERVE (Cal Students for Equal Rights & a Valid Education)  Chart color  2,426  (45.5%)  Defeated
Pie chart

JASON DIXSON (ASUC Senator), Student Action/UNITE-Greek/APPLE- Engineering has enough votes to guarantee victory (50%) and is declared a winner.

In the end, 49.4% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 44.8% 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 2005 Academic VP Election (UC Berkeley)

1 candidate will be elected with 5,884 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    90.6% 
2nd    7.6% 
3rd    1.5% 
4th    0.3% 
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