| DemoChoice Web Poll: New Zealand, Dunedin City, Hills Ward, 2004 note: Chin withdrew by DemoChoice rules |
| 3 candidates will be elected with 10,594 ballots cast. |
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In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
Peter Wing Ho CHIN has enough votes to guarantee victory
(25%) 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: New Zealand, Dunedin City, Hills Ward, 2004 note: Chin withdrew by DemoChoice rules |
| 3 candidates will be elected with 10,594 ballots cast. |
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Richard WALLS has enough votes to guarantee victory
(25%) 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: New Zealand, Dunedin City, Hills Ward, 2004 note: Chin withdrew by DemoChoice rules |
| 3 candidates will be elected with 10,594 ballots cast. |
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No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (25%), so the last-place candidate (Diane YELDON) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Go to the next round.
| DemoChoice Web Poll: New Zealand, Dunedin City, Hills Ward, 2004 note: Chin withdrew by DemoChoice rules |
| 3 candidates will be elected with 10,594 ballots cast. |
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No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (25%), so the last-place candidate (Mark PETERS) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Go to the next round.
| DemoChoice Web Poll: New Zealand, Dunedin City, Hills Ward, 2004 note: Chin withdrew by DemoChoice rules |
| 3 candidates will be elected with 10,594 ballots cast. |
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No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (25%), so the last-place candidate (Phillip DE WATTIGNAR) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Go to the next round.
| DemoChoice Web Poll: New Zealand, Dunedin City, Hills Ward, 2004 note: Chin withdrew by DemoChoice rules |
| 3 candidates will be elected with 10,594 ballots cast. |
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No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (25%), so the last-place candidate (Fliss BUTCHER) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Go to the next round.
| DemoChoice Web Poll: New Zealand, Dunedin City, Hills Ward, 2004 note: Chin withdrew by DemoChoice rules |
| 3 candidates will be elected with 10,594 ballots cast. |
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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.
Transfers are made from each winner until they all have an equal share of the votes.
Go to the next round.
| DemoChoice Web Poll: New Zealand, Dunedin City, Hills Ward, 2004 note: Chin withdrew by DemoChoice rules |
| 3 candidates will be elected with 10,594 ballots cast. |
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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.
Transfers are made from each winner until they all have an equal share of the votes.
Go to the next round.
| DemoChoice Web Poll: New Zealand, Dunedin City, Hills Ward, 2004 note: Chin withdrew by DemoChoice rules |
| 3 candidates will be elected with 10,594 ballots cast. |
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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, 97.6%
of all cast ballots counted toward a winner.
This compares to 86.9%
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 3" 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: New Zealand, Dunedin City, Hills Ward, 2004 note: Chin withdrew by DemoChoice rules |
| 3 candidates will be elected with 10,594 ballots cast. |
First Round | Last Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page
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