DemoChoice Web Poll: Board of Supervisors, District 4 - San Francisco, 2006
1 candidate will be elected with 21,985 ballots cast.
Round 1
| Candidate | Votes | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ed Jew |
|
5,184 | (26.2%) | |
| Ron Dudum |
|
5,134 | (25.9%) | |
| Jaynry Mak |
|
4,569 | (23.1%) | |
| Doug Chan |
|
3,236 | (16.3%) | |
| David Ferguson |
|
1,455 | (7.3%) | |
| Houston Zheng |
|
234 | (1.2%) | |
| Write-in |
|
2 | (0.0%) | Defeated |
In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
The last-place candidate (Write-in) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Go to the next round.
DemoChoice Web Poll: Board of Supervisors, District 4 - San Francisco, 2006
1 candidate will be elected with 21,985 ballots cast.
Round 2
| Candidate | Votes | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ed Jew |
|
5,184 | (26.2%) | |
| Ron Dudum |
|
5,134 | (25.9%) | |
| Jaynry Mak |
|
4,569 | (23.1%) | |
| Doug Chan |
|
3,236 | (16.3%) | |
| David Ferguson |
|
1,455 | (7.3%) | |
| Houston Zheng |
|
234 | (1.2%) | Defeated |
The last-place candidate (Houston Zheng) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Go to the next round.
DemoChoice Web Poll: Board of Supervisors, District 4 - San Francisco, 2006
1 candidate will be elected with 21,985 ballots cast.
Round 3
| Candidate | Votes | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ed Jew |
|
5,245 | (26.5%) | |
| Ron Dudum |
|
5,152 | (26.0%) | |
| Jaynry Mak |
|
4,609 | (23.3%) | |
| Doug Chan |
|
3,285 | (16.6%) | |
| David Ferguson |
|
1,490 | (7.5%) | Defeated |
The last-place candidate (David Ferguson) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Go to the next round.
DemoChoice Web Poll: Board of Supervisors, District 4 - San Francisco, 2006
1 candidate will be elected with 21,985 ballots cast.
Round 4
| Candidate | Votes | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ed Jew |
|
5,441 | (28.1%) | |
| Ron Dudum |
|
5,521 | (28.5%) | |
| Jaynry Mak |
|
5,012 | (25.9%) | |
| Doug Chan |
|
3,414 | (17.6%) | Defeated |
The last-place candidate (Doug Chan) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Go to the next round.
DemoChoice Web Poll: Board of Supervisors, District 4 - San Francisco, 2006
1 candidate will be elected with 21,985 ballots cast.
Round 5
| Candidate | Votes | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ed Jew |
|
6,455 | (34.7%) | |
| Ron Dudum |
|
6,305 | (33.9%) | |
| Jaynry Mak |
|
5,851 | (31.4%) | Defeated |
The last-place candidate (Jaynry Mak) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Go to the next round.
DemoChoice Web Poll: Board of Supervisors, District 4 - San Francisco, 2006
1 candidate will be elected with 21,985 ballots cast.
Round 6
| Candidate | Votes | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ed Jew |
|
8,388 | (52.5%) | Elected |
| Ron Dudum |
|
7,587 | (47.5%) | Defeated |
Ed Jew has enough votes to guarantee victory (50%) and is declared a winner.
In the end, 38.2% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 23.6% 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: Board of Supervisors, District 4 - San Francisco, 2006
1 candidate will be elected with 21,985 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 |
|
61.1% | |
| 2nd |
|
26.2% | |
| 3rd |
|
12.7% | |