DemoChoice Web Poll: Please select your TOP TWO choices for UNAD Welfare Officers

2 candidates will be elected with 63 ballots cast.


Round 1

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Candidate Votes Status
Grace Bromfield  Chart color  20.0  (31.7%)   
Keara Morfey  Chart color  16.0  (25.4%)   
Melanie Carmody  Chart color  12.0  (19.0%)   
Claire Wright  Chart color  8.0  (12.7%)   
Subbulakshmi Dharmaraj  Chart color  5.0  (7.9%)   
RON (Reopen Nominations)  Chart color  2.0  (3.2%)  Defeated
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In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
The last-place candidate (RON (Reopen Nominations)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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DemoChoice Web Poll: Please select your TOP TWO choices for UNAD Welfare Officers

2 candidates will be elected with 63 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Grace Bromfield  Chart color  20.0  (32.3%)   
Keara Morfey  Chart color  16.0  (25.8%)   
Melanie Carmody  Chart color  13.0  (21.0%)   
Claire Wright  Chart color  8.0  (12.9%)   
Subbulakshmi Dharmaraj  Chart color  5.0  (8.1%)  Defeated
None of these  Chart color  1.0  (1.6%)   
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The last-place candidate (Subbulakshmi Dharmaraj) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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DemoChoice Web Poll: Please select your TOP TWO choices for UNAD Welfare Officers

2 candidates will be elected with 63 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Grace Bromfield  Chart color  20.0  (32.3%)   
Keara Morfey  Chart color  18.0  (29.0%)   
Melanie Carmody  Chart color  15.0  (24.2%)   
Claire Wright  Chart color  9.0  (14.5%)  Defeated
None of these  Chart color  1.0  (1.6%)   
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The last-place candidate (Claire Wright) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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DemoChoice Web Poll: Please select your TOP TWO choices for UNAD Welfare Officers

2 candidates will be elected with 63 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Grace Bromfield  Chart color  23.0  (37.7%)  Elected
Keara Morfey  Chart color  18.0  (29.5%)   
Melanie Carmody  Chart color  20.0  (32.8%)   
None of these  Chart color  2.0  (3.3%)   
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Grace Bromfield has enough votes to guarantee victory (33.3%) 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).

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DemoChoice Web Poll: Please select your TOP TWO choices for UNAD Welfare Officers

2 candidates will be elected with 63 ballots cast.


Round 5

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Grace Bromfield  Chart color  20.3  (33.3%)   
Keara Morfey  Chart color  20.4  (33.4%)   
Melanie Carmody  Chart color  20.3  (33.2%)  Defeated
None of these  Chart color  2.0  (3.3%)   
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The last-place candidate (Melanie Carmody) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Please select your TOP TWO choices for UNAD Welfare Officers

2 candidates will be elected with 63 ballots cast.


Round 6

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Grace Bromfield  Chart color  28.6  (51.1%)  Elected
Keara Morfey  Chart color  27.4  (48.9%)   
None of these  Chart color  7.0  (12.5%)   
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Grace Bromfield has enough votes to guarantee victory (33.3%) 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: Please select your TOP TWO choices for UNAD Welfare Officers

2 candidates will be elected with 63 ballots cast.


Round 7

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Grace Bromfield  Chart color  28.0  (50.0%)  Elected
Keara Morfey  Chart color  28.0  (50.0%)  Elected
None of these  Chart color  7.0  (12.5%)   
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At this point, the number of remaining candidates equals the number of remaining seats, so the remaining candidates are declared elected.

In the end, 88.9% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 57.1% 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 2" 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.

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DemoChoice Web Poll: Please select your TOP TWO choices for UNAD Welfare Officers

2 candidates will be elected with 63 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    60.5% 
2nd    15.1% 
3rd    7.4% 
4th    16.1% 
5th    0.8% 
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