DemoChoice Web Poll: Cutest Oakland Zoo animal
1 candidate will be elected with 3,074 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page

Round 1    
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     elephant  1,084  (35.3%) 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD _______________ :
     goat  797  (25.9%) 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ________________________ :
     gibbon  793  (25.8%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ________________________ :
     warthog  400  (13.0%) 
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Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
     warthog Defeated
AAAAA CCC DDDDD E
Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, view the table form, or ask a question.
The dotted line represents the number of votes that guarantees victory (50% of counted votes).

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory, so the last-place candidate (     warthog) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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DemoChoice Web Poll: Cutest Oakland Zoo animal
1 candidate will be elected with 3,074 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page

Round 2    
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     elephant  1,223  (40.0%) 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD __________ :
     goat  941  (30.8%) 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ____________________ :
     gibbon  891  (29.2%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC _____________________ :
None of these  19   
E __________________________________________________
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
     gibbon Defeated
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA DDDDDDDDDDDDDD E
Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, view the table form, or ask a question.
The dotted line represents the number of votes that guarantees victory (50% of counted votes).

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory, so the last-place candidate (     gibbon) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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DemoChoice Web Poll: Cutest Oakland Zoo animal
1 candidate will be elected with 3,074 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page

Round 3    
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     elephant  1,657  (54.8%) 
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     goat  1,366  (45.2%) 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA _____ :
None of these  51   
EE ________________________________________________
   
Results  
     goatDefeated 
     elephantElected 
Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, view the table form, or ask a question.
The dotted line represents the number of votes that guarantees victory (50% of counted votes).

     elephant has enough votes to guarantee victory and is declared a winner.
In the end, 53.9% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 35.3% if only the first-round votes were used.

The Ballot Depth section shows how much lower rankings contributed to the tally.

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DemoChoice Web Poll: Cutest Oakland Zoo animal
1 candidate will be elected with 3,074 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Final Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page

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

Rank Fraction of votes for winner
1st 65.4% 
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2nd 28.2% 
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3rd 6.3% 
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