Round 16

Legend

Candidate		Votes		Status
Phil Dynan, Communications Consultant (Peace and Freedom)		33.2	(20.0%)	Elected
Cat Woods, Community Volunteer (Green)		33.2	(20.0%)	Elected
Richard Olmstead, Business Owner (Libertarian)		33.2	(20.0%)	Elected
John Gould, Tax Consultant/Realtor (Republican)		33.2	(20.0%)	Elected
Thomas Reed, Small Business Owner (Libertarian)		33.2	(20.0%)	Elected
None of these		11.0	(6.6%)

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

In the end, 93.8% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 93.8% 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 5" 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.