DemoChoice Web Poll: 2006 Burlington, VT Mayoral Election, March 7, 2006

1 candidate will be elected with 9,778 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Bob Kiss  Chart color  3,809  (39.0%)   
Hinda Miller  Chart color  3,106  (31.8%)   
Kevin J. Curley  Chart color  2,609  (26.7%)   
Louie The Cowman Beaudin  Chart color  119  (1.2%)   
Write-ins  Chart color  78  (0.8%)   
Loyal Ploof  Chart color  57  (0.6%)  Defeated
Pie chart

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
The last-place candidate (Loyal Ploof) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: 2006 Burlington, VT Mayoral Election, March 7, 2006

1 candidate will be elected with 9,778 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Bob Kiss  Chart color  3,827  (39.2%)   
Hinda Miller  Chart color  3,122  (31.9%)   
Kevin J. Curley  Chart color  2,618  (26.8%)   
Louie The Cowman Beaudin  Chart color  128  (1.3%)   
Write-ins  Chart color  78  (0.8%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Write-ins) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: 2006 Burlington, VT Mayoral Election, March 7, 2006

1 candidate will be elected with 9,778 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Bob Kiss  Chart color  3,857  (39.5%)   
Hinda Miller  Chart color  3,135  (32.1%)   
Kevin J. Curley  Chart color  2,637  (27.0%)   
Louie The Cowman Beaudin  Chart color  136  (1.4%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Louie The Cowman Beaudin) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: 2006 Burlington, VT Mayoral Election, March 7, 2006

1 candidate will be elected with 9,778 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Bob Kiss  Chart color  3,898  (40.1%)   
Hinda Miller  Chart color  3,157  (32.4%)   
Kevin J. Curley  Chart color  2,675  (27.5%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Kevin J. Curley) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: 2006 Burlington, VT Mayoral Election, March 7, 2006

1 candidate will be elected with 9,778 ballots cast.


Round 5

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Bob Kiss  Chart color  4,761  (54.4%)  Elected
Hinda Miller  Chart color  3,986  (45.6%)  Defeated
Pie chart

Bob Kiss has enough votes to guarantee victory (50%) and is declared a winner.

In the end, 48.7% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 39% 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: 2006 Burlington, VT Mayoral Election, March 7, 2006

1 candidate will be elected with 9,778 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    80.0% 
2nd    15.8% 
3rd    2.5% 
4th    1.6% 
Pie chart