DemoChoice Web Poll: Assembly members from the Inland Empire (District 12)

5 candidates will be elected with 11 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
John Benoit, State Assembly Member, 64th District (Republican)   Chart color  4.0  (36.4%)   
Jon Taleb, Teacher (Peace and Freedom)   Chart color  4.0  (36.4%)  Elected
Bonnie Garcia, Assemblywoman/Educator (Republican)   Chart color  2.0  (18.2%)   
Paul Rasso, School District Employee (Democratic)   Chart color  1.0  (9.1%)   
Pie chart

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
Jon Taleb, Teacher (Peace and Freedom) has enough votes to guarantee victory (16.7%) 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: Assembly members from the Inland Empire (District 12)

5 candidates will be elected with 11 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
John Benoit, State Assembly Member, 64th District (Republican)   Chart color  4.0  (36.4%)  Elected
Jon Taleb, Teacher (Peace and Freedom)   Chart color  4.0  (36.4%)   
Bonnie Garcia, Assemblywoman/Educator (Republican)   Chart color  2.0  (18.2%)   
Paul Rasso, School District Employee (Democratic)   Chart color  1.0  (9.1%)   
Pie chart

John Benoit, State Assembly Member, 64th District (Republican) has enough votes to guarantee victory (16.7%) 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: Assembly members from the Inland Empire (District 12)

5 candidates will be elected with 11 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
John Benoit, State Assembly Member, 64th District (Republican)   Chart color  1.8  (16.7%)   
Jon Taleb, Teacher (Peace and Freedom)   Chart color  4.0  (36.4%)   
Bonnie Garcia, Assemblywoman/Educator (Republican)   Chart color  2.0  (18.2%)  Elected
Paul Rasso, School District Employee (Democratic)   Chart color  1.0  (9.1%)   
Marjory Mendoza-Ware, Board Member CJUSD (Republican)   Chart color  1.4  (13.1%)   
Bill Emmerson, Assemblymember/Businessman (Republican)   Chart color  0.7  (6.6%)   
Pie chart

Bonnie Garcia, Assemblywoman/Educator (Republican) has enough votes to guarantee victory (16.7%) 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: Assembly members from the Inland Empire (District 12)

5 candidates will be elected with 11 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
John Benoit, State Assembly Member, 64th District (Republican)   Chart color  1.8  (16.7%)   
Jon Taleb, Teacher (Peace and Freedom)   Chart color  4.0  (36.4%)   
Bonnie Garcia, Assemblywoman/Educator (Republican)   Chart color  1.8  (16.7%)   
Paul Rasso, School District Employee (Democratic)   Chart color  1.0  (9.1%)   
Wilmer Carter, Education Consultant/Businesswoman (Democratic)   Chart color  0.1  (0.8%)  Defeated
Marjory Mendoza-Ware, Board Member CJUSD (Republican)   Chart color  1.4  (13.1%)   
Bill Emmerson, Assemblymember/Businessman (Republican)   Chart color  0.7  (6.6%)   
Paul Cook, Retired Marine Colonel (Republican)   Chart color  0.1  (0.8%)   
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Wilmer Carter, Education Consultant/Businesswoman (Democratic)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Assembly members from the Inland Empire (District 12)

5 candidates will be elected with 11 ballots cast.


Round 5

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
John Benoit, State Assembly Member, 64th District (Republican)   Chart color  1.8  (16.7%)   
Jon Taleb, Teacher (Peace and Freedom)   Chart color  4.0  (36.4%)   
Bonnie Garcia, Assemblywoman/Educator (Republican)   Chart color  1.8  (16.7%)   
Paul Rasso, School District Employee (Democratic)   Chart color  1.0  (9.1%)   
Marjory Mendoza-Ware, Board Member CJUSD (Republican)   Chart color  1.4  (13.1%)   
Bill Emmerson, Assemblymember/Businessman (Republican)   Chart color  0.7  (6.6%)   
Paul Cook, Retired Marine Colonel (Republican)   Chart color  0.2  (1.5%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Paul Cook, Retired Marine Colonel (Republican)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Assembly members from the Inland Empire (District 12)

5 candidates will be elected with 11 ballots cast.


Round 6

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
John Benoit, State Assembly Member, 64th District (Republican)   Chart color  1.8  (16.7%)   
Jon Taleb, Teacher (Peace and Freedom)   Chart color  4.0  (36.4%)   
Bonnie Garcia, Assemblywoman/Educator (Republican)   Chart color  1.8  (16.7%)   
Paul Rasso, School District Employee (Democratic)   Chart color  1.0  (9.1%)   
Marjory Mendoza-Ware, Board Member CJUSD (Republican)   Chart color  1.5  (13.9%)   
Bill Emmerson, Assemblymember/Businessman (Republican)   Chart color  0.8  (7.3%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Bill Emmerson, Assemblymember/Businessman (Republican)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Assembly members from the Inland Empire (District 12)

5 candidates will be elected with 11 ballots cast.


Round 7

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
John Benoit, State Assembly Member, 64th District (Republican)   Chart color  1.8  (16.7%)   
Jon Taleb, Teacher (Peace and Freedom)   Chart color  4.0  (36.4%)  Equalized
Bonnie Garcia, Assemblywoman/Educator (Republican)   Chart color  1.8  (16.7%)   
Paul Rasso, School District Employee (Democratic)   Chart color  1.0  (9.1%)   
Marjory Mendoza-Ware, Board Member CJUSD (Republican)   Chart color  2.3  (21.2%)   
Pie chart

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: Assembly members from the Inland Empire (District 12)

5 candidates will be elected with 11 ballots cast.


Round 8

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
John Benoit, State Assembly Member, 64th District (Republican)   Chart color  1.8  (16.7%)   
Jon Taleb, Teacher (Peace and Freedom)   Chart color  4.0  (36.4%)   
Bonnie Garcia, Assemblywoman/Educator (Republican)   Chart color  1.8  (16.7%)   
Paul Rasso, School District Employee (Democratic)   Chart color  1.0  (9.1%)   
Marjory Mendoza-Ware, Board Member CJUSD (Republican)   Chart color  2.3  (21.2%)  Equalized
Pie chart

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: Assembly members from the Inland Empire (District 12)

5 candidates will be elected with 11 ballots cast.


Round 9

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
John Benoit, State Assembly Member, 64th District (Republican)   Chart color  2.0  (17.8%)  Elected
Jon Taleb, Teacher (Peace and Freedom)   Chart color  4.0  (36.4%)  Elected
Bonnie Garcia, Assemblywoman/Educator (Republican)   Chart color  1.8  (16.8%)  Elected
Paul Rasso, School District Employee (Democratic)   Chart color  1.0  (9.1%)  Elected
Marjory Mendoza-Ware, Board Member CJUSD (Republican)   Chart color  2.2  (20.0%)  Elected
Pie chart

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 100% 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 5" 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: Assembly members from the Inland Empire (District 12)

5 candidates will be elected with 11 ballots cast.


Ballot Depth

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

Rank Fraction of votes for winners
1st    80.0% 
3rd    13.1% 
5th    6.1% 
6th    0.8% 
Pie chart