DemoChoice Web Poll: New Zealand, Dunedin Mayor, 2004
by DemoChoice rules

1 candidate will be elected with 45,720 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Peter Wing Ho CHIN  Chart color  19,862  (43.4%)   
Malcolm Saba FARRY  Chart color  17,674  (38.7%)   
Leah MCBEY  Chart color  3,688  (8.1%)   
Teresa STEVENSON  Chart color  2,893  (6.3%)   
Lee VANDERVIS  Chart color  1,414  (3.1%)   
Jimmy KNOWLES  Chart color  189  (0.4%)  Defeated
Pie chart

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
The last-place candidate (Jimmy KNOWLES) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: New Zealand, Dunedin Mayor, 2004
by DemoChoice rules

1 candidate will be elected with 45,720 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Peter Wing Ho CHIN  Chart color  19,886  (43.5%)   
Malcolm Saba FARRY  Chart color  17,692  (38.7%)   
Leah MCBEY  Chart color  3,728  (8.2%)   
Teresa STEVENSON  Chart color  2,926  (6.4%)   
Lee VANDERVIS  Chart color  1,441  (3.2%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: New Zealand, Dunedin Mayor, 2004
by DemoChoice rules

1 candidate will be elected with 45,720 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Peter Wing Ho CHIN  Chart color  20,248  (44.6%)   
Malcolm Saba FARRY  Chart color  17,909  (39.4%)   
Leah MCBEY  Chart color  3,935  (8.7%)   
Teresa STEVENSON  Chart color  3,305  (7.3%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: New Zealand, Dunedin Mayor, 2004
by DemoChoice rules

1 candidate will be elected with 45,720 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Peter Wing Ho CHIN  Chart color  21,046  (47.1%)   
Malcolm Saba FARRY  Chart color  18,488  (41.4%)   
Leah MCBEY  Chart color  5,135  (11.5%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: New Zealand, Dunedin Mayor, 2004
by DemoChoice rules

1 candidate will be elected with 45,720 ballots cast.


Round 5

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Peter Wing Ho CHIN  Chart color  23,017  (53.5%)  Elected
Malcolm Saba FARRY  Chart color  20,029  (46.5%)  Defeated
Pie chart

Peter Wing Ho CHIN has enough votes to guarantee victory (50%) and is declared a winner.

In the end, 50.3% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 43.4% if only the first-round votes were used.

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
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: New Zealand, Dunedin Mayor, 2004
by DemoChoice rules

1 candidate will be elected with 45,720 ballots cast.


Ballot Depth

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

Rank Fraction of votes for winner
1st    86.3% 
2nd    8.7% 
3rd    3.3% 
4th    1.2% 
5th    0.5% 
Pie chart