DemoChoice Web Poll: Salary committee election

4 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Liette Gidlow  Chart color  3.0  (25.0%)  Elected
Betsy Lublin  Chart color  2.0  (16.7%)   
Andrew Port  Chart color  2.0  (16.7%)   
Eric Ash  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)   
Reyna Esquivel-King  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)   
Aaron Retish  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)   
Sylvia Taschka  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)   
Sandra Van Burkleo  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)   
Pie chart

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
Liette Gidlow has enough votes to guarantee victory (20%) and is declared a winner.To ensure that everyone's vote counts equally, votes that exceed that threshold are counted toward their next highest ranking (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

Go to the next round.
















       

DemoChoice Web Poll: Salary committee election

4 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Liette Gidlow  Chart color  2.4  (20.0%)   
Betsy Lublin  Chart color  2.0  (16.7%)   
Andrew Port  Chart color  2.0  (16.7%)   
Eric Ash  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)   
Reyna Esquivel-King  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)   
Aaron Retish  Chart color  1.3  (10.8%)   
Sylvia Taschka  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)  Defeated
Sandra Van Burkleo  Chart color  1.3  (10.8%)   
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Salary committee election

4 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Liette Gidlow  Chart color  2.4  (20.0%)   
Betsy Lublin  Chart color  2.0  (16.7%)   
Andrew Port  Chart color  2.0  (16.7%)   
Eric Ash  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)   
Reyna Esquivel-King  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)  Defeated
Aaron Retish  Chart color  2.3  (19.2%)   
Sandra Van Burkleo  Chart color  1.3  (10.8%)   
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Salary committee election

4 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Liette Gidlow  Chart color  2.4  (20.0%)   
Betsy Lublin  Chart color  2.0  (16.7%)   
Andrew Port  Chart color  2.0  (16.7%)   
Eric Ash  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)   
Aaron Retish  Chart color  3.3  (27.5%)  Elected
Sandra Van Burkleo  Chart color  1.3  (10.8%)   
Pie chart

Aaron Retish has enough votes to guarantee victory (20%) and is declared a winner.To ensure that everyone's vote counts equally, votes that exceed that threshold are counted toward their next highest ranking (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Salary committee election

4 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 5

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Liette Gidlow  Chart color  2.4  (20.0%)   
Betsy Lublin  Chart color  2.9  (24.2%)  Elected
Andrew Port  Chart color  2.0  (16.7%)   
Eric Ash  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)   
Aaron Retish  Chart color  2.4  (20.0%)   
Sandra Van Burkleo  Chart color  1.3  (10.8%)   
Pie chart

Betsy Lublin has enough votes to guarantee victory (20%) and is declared a winner.To ensure that everyone's vote counts equally, votes that exceed that threshold are counted toward their next highest ranking (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Salary committee election

4 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 6

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Liette Gidlow  Chart color  2.4  (20.0%)   
Betsy Lublin  Chart color  2.4  (20.0%)   
Andrew Port  Chart color  2.3  (18.8%)   
Eric Ash  Chart color  1.3  (10.4%)  Defeated
Aaron Retish  Chart color  2.4  (20.0%)   
Sandra Van Burkleo  Chart color  1.3  (10.8%)   
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Salary committee election

4 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 7

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Liette Gidlow  Chart color  2.4  (20.0%)   
Betsy Lublin  Chart color  2.7  (22.1%)   
Andrew Port  Chart color  2.3  (18.8%)  Defeated
Aaron Retish  Chart color  2.4  (20.0%)   
Sandra Van Burkleo  Chart color  2.3  (19.2%)   
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Salary committee election

4 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 8

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Liette Gidlow  Chart color  2.4  (20.0%)   
Betsy Lublin  Chart color  2.7  (22.1%)   
Aaron Retish  Chart color  3.4  (28.3%)   
Sandra Van Burkleo  Chart color  3.6  (29.6%)  Equalized
Pie chart

At this point, the number of remaining candidates equals the number of remaining seats, so the remaining candidates are declared elected.

Transfers are made from each winner until they all have an equal share of the votes.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Salary committee election

4 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 9

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Liette Gidlow  Chart color  2.8  (23.7%)   
Betsy Lublin  Chart color  2.8  (23.0%)   
Aaron Retish  Chart color  3.4  (28.3%)  Equalized
Sandra Van Burkleo  Chart color  3.0  (25.0%)   
Pie chart

At this point, the number of remaining candidates equals the number of remaining seats, so the remaining candidates are declared elected.

Transfers are made from each winner until they all have an equal share of the votes.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Salary committee election

4 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 10

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Liette Gidlow  Chart color  2.8  (23.7%)   
Betsy Lublin  Chart color  3.2  (26.3%)  Equalized
Aaron Retish  Chart color  3.0  (25.0%)   
Sandra Van Burkleo  Chart color  3.0  (25.0%)   
Pie chart

At this point, the number of remaining candidates equals the number of remaining seats, so the remaining candidates are declared elected.

Transfers are made from each winner until they all have an equal share of the votes.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Salary committee election

4 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 11

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Liette Gidlow  Chart color  3.0  (25.0%)  Elected
Betsy Lublin  Chart color  3.0  (25.0%)  Elected
Aaron Retish  Chart color  3.0  (25.0%)  Elected
Sandra Van Burkleo  Chart color  3.0  (25.0%)  Elected
Pie chart

At this point, the number of remaining candidates equals the number of remaining seats, so the remaining candidates are declared elected.

In the end, 100% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 66.7% if only the first-round votes were used. You should be able to see that the winners have a more equal mandate in the final round than in the first round.

Note that even the "highest first-round votes" method is more democratic than most methods used in US public elections: the "vote for 4" method, which allows the largest block of voters to dominate, and the district method, where choices are restricted to the one or two viable candidates within geographical boundaries drawn by the politicians in office.

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
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Salary committee election

4 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Ballot Depth

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

Rank Fraction of votes for winners
1st    50.8% 
2nd    10.8% 
3rd    7.8% 
4th    3.7% 
5th    11.4% 
6th    8.3% 
9th    1.3% 
10th    4.7% 
12th    1.2% 
Pie chart