DemoChoice Web Poll: AComm Election (pick 2 to kick out!!!).

2 candidates will be elected with 36 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Alex Horne  Chart color  18.0  (50.0%)  Elected
Chris Noga  Chart color  10.0  (27.8%)   
Kevin Guo  Chart color  7.0  (19.4%)   
Leon Deng  Chart color  1.0  (2.8%)   
Pie chart

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
Alex Horne 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: AComm Election (pick 2 to kick out!!!).

2 candidates will be elected with 36 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Alex Horne  Chart color  12.0  (33.3%)   
Chris Noga  Chart color  11.0  (30.6%)   
Kevin Guo  Chart color  9.3  (25.9%)   
Leon Deng  Chart color  1.3  (3.7%)   
Billy Menken  Chart color  0.3  (0.9%)  Defeated
Saechow Yap  Chart color  2.0  (5.6%)   
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: AComm Election (pick 2 to kick out!!!).

2 candidates will be elected with 36 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Alex Horne  Chart color  12.0  (33.3%)   
Chris Noga  Chart color  11.0  (30.6%)   
Kevin Guo  Chart color  9.3  (25.9%)   
Leon Deng  Chart color  1.3  (3.7%)  Defeated
Saechow Yap  Chart color  2.3  (6.5%)   
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: AComm Election (pick 2 to kick out!!!).

2 candidates will be elected with 36 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Alex Horne  Chart color  12.0  (33.3%)   
Chris Noga  Chart color  11.0  (30.6%)   
Kevin Guo  Chart color  10.3  (28.7%)   
Saechow Yap  Chart color  2.7  (7.4%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: AComm Election (pick 2 to kick out!!!).

2 candidates will be elected with 36 ballots cast.


Round 5

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Alex Horne  Chart color  12.0  (33.3%)   
Chris Noga  Chart color  11.3  (31.5%)  Defeated
Kevin Guo  Chart color  12.7  (35.2%)   
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: AComm Election (pick 2 to kick out!!!).

2 candidates will be elected with 36 ballots cast.


Round 6

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Alex Horne  Chart color  15.3  (47.9%)   
Kevin Guo  Chart color  16.7  (52.1%)  Elected
None of these  Chart color  4.0  (12.5%)   
Pie chart

Kevin Guo 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: AComm Election (pick 2 to kick out!!!).

2 candidates will be elected with 36 ballots cast.


Round 7

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Alex Horne  Chart color  16.0  (50.0%)  Elected
Kevin Guo  Chart color  16.0  (50.0%)  Elected
None of these  Chart color  4.0  (12.5%)   
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, 88.9% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 77.8% 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 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: AComm Election (pick 2 to kick out!!!).

2 candidates will be elected with 36 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    63.5% 
2nd    27.1% 
3rd    4.9% 
4th    2.8% 
5th    1.0% 
7th    0.7% 
Pie chart