DemoChoice

Real-world elections

These polls are an independent, unofficial analysis of ballot data from real public elections. For multi-winner elections, the results presented here may differ slightly from the real results due to minor variations in the counting rules. We are interested in presenting more real public elections as data become available, although sometimes they come in formats that require tedious editing or programming to put into usable form, so there is generally always a backlog of data to be processed.

Cambridge, MA

Cambridge has used ranked-choice voting since 1941 to elect its 9-member city council and 6-member school committee.
The city computerized its elections several years ago, making ballot data available.

Contest	Vote	Results
Cambridge, MA 2013 City Council Election
Cambridge, MA 2011 City Council Election
Cambridge, MA Nov 13, 2009 City Council Election
Cambridge, MA 2007 City Council Election
Cambridge, MA 2005 City Council Election
Cambridge, MA 2003 City Council Election
Cambridge, MA 2001 City Council Election
Cambridge, MA 1999 City Council Election
Cambridge, MA 1997 City Council Election
Cambridge, MA 2013 School Committee Election
Cambridge, MA 2011 School Committee Election
Cambridge, MA Nov 13, 2009 School Committee Election
Cambridge, MA 2007 School Committee Election
Cambridge, MA 2005 School Committee Election
Cambridge, MA 2003 School Committee Election
Cambridge, MA 2001 School Committee Election
Cambridge, MA 1999 School Committee Election
Cambridge, MA 1997 School Committee Election

Student government elections

A number of schools use ranked-choice voting. Stanford University and the University of California, Davis and Berkeley have made ballot data available.

Contest	Vote	Results
ASUCD Senate Election - November 2005
ASUCD Winter 2005 Senate Election
ASUCD Senate - Fall 2004
ASUCD Senate - Winter 2004 Election
ASUCD Senate Fall 2003 Election
ASSU President 2001
Stanford Sophomore Class Presidents 2001
ASUC 2001 Academic VP Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2002 Academic VP Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2003 Academic VP Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2004 Academic VP Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2005 Academic VP Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2001 Executive VP Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2002 Executive VP Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2003 Executive VP Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2004 Executive VP Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2005 Executive VP Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2001 External VP Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2002 External VP Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2003 External VP Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2004 External VP Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2005 External VP Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2001 President Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2002 President Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2003 President Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2004 President Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2005 President Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2002 Student Advocate Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2004 Student Advocate Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2005 Student Advocate Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2001 Senator Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2002 Senator Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2003 Senator Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2004 Senator Election (UC Berkeley)
ASUC 2005 Senator Election (UC Berkeley)

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco uses ranked-choice voting to elect an 11-member board of supervisors from districts, staggering elections of even and odd seats, as well as several executive positions. Oakland, Berkeley, and San Leandro elect city councils and mayors this way, along with the Oakland school board. The first few San Francisco elections are highlighted here. More recent results for San Francisco and the East Bay are available.

Contest	Vote	Results
2005 San Francisco Assessor/Recorder
2004 San Francisco City Supervisor District 1
2004 San Francisco City Supervisor District 5
2004 San Francisco City Supervisor District 7
2004 San Francisco City Supervisor District 11

Burlington, VT

Burlington held ranked-choice mayoral elections in 2006 and 2009. They use an elegant rule for duplicate rankings, which sometimes happen on paper ballots. DemoChoice cannot process duplicates, but they could be preprocessed to give the same result.

Contest	Vote	Results
2006 Burlington, VT Mayoral Election, March 7, 2006
2009 Burlington, VT Mayoral Election, March 3, 2009

Ireland

Ireland has used ranked-choice voting to elect its upper legislative body from multi-member districts since 1922. They are starting to computerize their elections.

Contest	Vote	Results
Dáil - Dublin North 17 May 2002
Dáil - Dublin West 17 May 2002
Dáil - Meath 17 May 2002

New Zealand

New Zealand first started using ranked-choice voting in 2004 and has made ballot data available.

Contest	Vote	Results
New Zealand, Chalmers Community Board, 2004
New Zealand, Dunedin Mayor, 2004
New Zealand, Dunedin City, Cargill Ward, 2004
New Zealand, Dunedin City, Hills Ward, 2004
New Zealand, South Dunedin Ward, 2004
New Zealand, Canterbury District Health Board, 2004
New Zealand, Mosgiel Subdivision, 2004
New Zealand, Otago Peninsula Community Board, 2004
New Zealand, Porirua City, Eastern Ward, 2004
New Zealand, Porirua City, Mayoralty, 2004
New Zealand, Porirua City, Northern Ward, 2004
New Zealand, Porirua City, Western Ward, 2004
New Zealand, Saddle Hill Community Board, 2004
New Zealand, Taieri Subdivision, 2004
New Zealand, Waikouaiti Coast-Chalmers Ward, 2004

New Mexico

Santa Fe, New Mexico started using ranked-choice voting in 2018. Las Cruces plans to use it starting in 2019.

Contest	Vote	Results
Santa Fe Mayor 2018
Santa Fe Councilor, District 4, 2018