DemoChoice Web Poll: Senior Council
2 candidates will be elected with 23 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page

Round 1    
--------------------------------- 33.3%
Cam  13.0  (56.5%) 
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Cooper  5.0  (21.7%) 
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Sasha  3.0  (13.0%) 
BBBBBBBBBBBBB ____________________ :
Alex  2.0  (8.7%) 
DDDDDDDDD ________________________ :
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Cam Elected
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Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, view the table form, or ask a question.
The dotted line represents the number of votes that guarantees victory (33.3% of counted votes).

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
Cam has enough votes to guarantee victory 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, if possible. This is actually done by counting a fraction of the ballots most recently counted for the winning candidate.

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DemoChoice Web Poll: Senior Council
2 candidates will be elected with 23 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page

Round 2    
-------------------------------- 33.3%
Cam  7.7  (33.3%) 
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Cooper  7.1  (30.7%) 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA __ :
Sasha  6.3  (27.3%) 
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB _____ :
Alex  2.0  (8.7%) 
DDDDDDDDD _______________________ :
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Alex Defeated
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Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, view the table form, or ask a question.
The dotted line represents the number of votes that guarantees victory (33.3% of counted votes).

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

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DemoChoice Web Poll: Senior Council
2 candidates will be elected with 23 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page

Round 3    
--------------------------------- 33.3%
Cam  7.7  (33.3%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC :
Cooper  8.1  (35.0%) 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA :A
Sasha  7.3  (31.7%) 
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB ___ :
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Sasha Defeated
AAAAAAAAA CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, view the table form, or ask a question.
The dotted line represents the number of votes that guarantees victory (33.3% of counted votes).

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

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DemoChoice Web Poll: Senior Council
2 candidates will be elected with 23 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page

Round 4    
------------------------------------------------- 50%
Cam  12.9  (56.3%) 
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Cooper  10.1  (43.7%) 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ______ :
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Cam Equalized
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Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, view the table form, or ask a question.
The dotted line represents an elected member's equal share of the votes (50% of counted votes).

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.

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DemoChoice Web Poll: Senior Council
2 candidates will be elected with 23 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page

Round 5    
------------------------------------------------ 50%
Cam  11.5  (50.0%) 
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Cooper  11.5  (50.0%) 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA :
   
Results  
CooperElected 
CamElected 
Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, view the table form, or ask a question.
The dotted line represents an elected member's equal share of the votes (50% of counted votes).

At this point, the number of remaining candidates equals the number of remaining seats, so the remaining candidates are declared elected.
In the end, 100% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 78.3% 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.

The Ballot Depth section shows how much lower rankings contributed to the tally.
















 
 
DemoChoice Web Poll: Senior Council
2 candidates will be elected with 23 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Final Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page

Ballot Depth: This shows how much the lower rankings on ballots contributed to the winning candidates.

Rank Fraction of votes for winners
1st 69.3% 
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2nd 15.7% 
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