DemoChoice Web Poll: February Book Club
2 candidates will be elected with 7 ballots cast.
Round 1
| Candidate | Votes | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood |
|
2.0 | (28.6%) | |
| Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng |
|
1.0 | (14.3%) | |
| The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris |
|
1.0 | (14.3%) | |
| The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben |
|
1.0 | (14.3%) | Defeated |
| A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes |
|
1.0 | (14.3%) | |
| Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips |
|
1.0 | (14.3%) | |
The last-place candidate (The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Go to the next round.
DemoChoice Web Poll: February Book Club
2 candidates will be elected with 7 ballots cast.
Round 2
| Candidate | Votes | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood |
|
2.0 | (28.6%) | |
| Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng |
|
1.0 | (14.3%) | |
| The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris |
|
2.0 | (28.6%) | |
| A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes |
|
1.0 | (14.3%) | Defeated |
| Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips |
|
1.0 | (14.3%) | |
The last-place candidate (A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Go to the next round.
DemoChoice Web Poll: February Book Club
2 candidates will be elected with 7 ballots cast.
Round 3
| Candidate | Votes | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood |
|
2.0 | (28.6%) | |
| Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng |
|
1.0 | (14.3%) | Defeated |
| The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris |
|
2.0 | (28.6%) | |
| Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips |
|
2.0 | (28.6%) | |
The last-place candidate (Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Go to the next round.
DemoChoice Web Poll: February Book Club
2 candidates will be elected with 7 ballots cast.
Round 4
| Candidate | Votes | Status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood |
|
2.0 | (28.6%) | ||
| The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris |
|
2.0 | (28.6%) | ||
| Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips |
|
3.0 | (42.9%) | Elected | |
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips 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: February Book Club
2 candidates will be elected with 7 ballots cast.
Round 5
| Candidate | Votes | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood |
|
2.0 | (28.6%) | Defeated |
| The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris |
|
2.7 | (38.1%) | |
| Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips |
|
2.3 | (33.3%) | |
The last-place candidate (No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Go to the next round.
DemoChoice Web Poll: February Book Club
2 candidates will be elected with 7 ballots cast.
Round 6
| Candidate | Votes | Status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris |
|
2.7 | (44.4%) | ||
| Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips |
|
3.3 | (55.6%) | Elected | |
| None of these |
|
1.0 | (16.7%) | ||
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips 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: February Book Club
2 candidates will be elected with 7 ballots cast.
Round 7
| Candidate | Votes | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris |
|
3.0 | (50.0%) | Elected |
| Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips |
|
3.0 | (50.0%) | Elected |
| None of these |
|
1.0 | (16.7%) | |
At this point, the number of remaining candidates equals the number of remaining seats, so the remaining candidates are declared elected.
In the end, 85.7% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 42.9% 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.
DemoChoice Web Poll: February Book Club
2 candidates will be elected with 7 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 |
|
33.3% | |
| 3rd |
|
33.3% | |
| 4th |
|
11.1% | |
| 5th |
|
5.6% | |
| 9th |
|
16.7% | |