DemoChoice Web Poll: Mayor - Oakland, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 119,607 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Don Perata  Chart color  40,342  (33.7%)   
Jean Quan  Chart color  29,266  (24.5%)   
Rebecca Kaplan  Chart color  25,813  (21.6%)   
Joe Tuman  Chart color  14,347  (12.0%)   
Marcie Hodge  Chart color  2,994  (2.5%)   
Terence Candell  Chart color  2,315  (1.9%)   
Don MacLeay  Chart color  1,630  (1.4%)   
Greg Harland  Chart color  966  (0.8%)   
Larry Lionel 'LL' Young Jr.  Chart color  933  (0.8%)   
Arnold Fields  Chart color  733  (0.6%)   
Write-In  Chart color  268  (0.2%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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: Mayor - Oakland, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 119,607 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Don Perata  Chart color  40,374  (33.8%)   
Jean Quan  Chart color  29,299  (24.5%)   
Rebecca Kaplan  Chart color  25,831  (21.6%)   
Joe Tuman  Chart color  14,357  (12.0%)   
Marcie Hodge  Chart color  2,999  (2.5%)   
Terence Candell  Chart color  2,316  (1.9%)   
Don MacLeay  Chart color  1,636  (1.4%)   
Greg Harland  Chart color  968  (0.8%)   
Larry Lionel 'LL' Young Jr.  Chart color  939  (0.8%)   
Arnold Fields  Chart color  738  (0.6%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Mayor - Oakland, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 119,607 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Don Perata  Chart color  40,455  (33.9%)   
Jean Quan  Chart color  29,391  (24.6%)   
Rebecca Kaplan  Chart color  25,890  (21.7%)   
Joe Tuman  Chart color  14,471  (12.1%)   
Marcie Hodge  Chart color  3,033  (2.5%)   
Terence Candell  Chart color  2,386  (2.0%)   
Don MacLeay  Chart color  1,677  (1.4%)   
Greg Harland  Chart color  1,059  (0.9%)   
Larry Lionel 'LL' Young Jr.  Chart color  976  (0.8%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Larry Lionel 'LL' Young Jr.) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Mayor - Oakland, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 119,607 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Don Perata  Chart color  40,606  (34.1%)   
Jean Quan  Chart color  29,514  (24.8%)   
Rebecca Kaplan  Chart color  26,026  (21.8%)   
Joe Tuman  Chart color  14,552  (12.2%)   
Marcie Hodge  Chart color  3,155  (2.6%)   
Terence Candell  Chart color  2,497  (2.1%)   
Don MacLeay  Chart color  1,719  (1.4%)   
Greg Harland  Chart color  1,087  (0.9%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Mayor - Oakland, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 119,607 ballots cast.


Round 5

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Don Perata  Chart color  40,728  (34.2%)   
Jean Quan  Chart color  29,645  (24.9%)   
Rebecca Kaplan  Chart color  26,117  (22.0%)   
Joe Tuman  Chart color  14,780  (12.4%)   
Marcie Hodge  Chart color  3,200  (2.7%)   
Terence Candell  Chart color  2,613  (2.2%)   
Don MacLeay  Chart color  1,852  (1.6%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Mayor - Oakland, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 119,607 ballots cast.


Round 6

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Don Perata  Chart color  40,814  (34.4%)   
Jean Quan  Chart color  30,500  (25.7%)   
Rebecca Kaplan  Chart color  26,496  (22.3%)   
Joe Tuman  Chart color  14,949  (12.6%)   
Marcie Hodge  Chart color  3,250  (2.7%)   
Terence Candell  Chart color  2,680  (2.3%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Mayor - Oakland, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 119,607 ballots cast.


Round 7

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Don Perata  Chart color  41,364  (35.1%)   
Jean Quan  Chart color  30,884  (26.2%)   
Rebecca Kaplan  Chart color  26,831  (22.8%)   
Joe Tuman  Chart color  15,202  (12.9%)   
Marcie Hodge  Chart color  3,625  (3.1%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Mayor - Oakland, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 119,607 ballots cast.


Round 8

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Don Perata  Chart color  42,188  (36.1%)   
Jean Quan  Chart color  31,655  (27.1%)   
Rebecca Kaplan  Chart color  27,475  (23.5%)   
Joe Tuman  Chart color  15,462  (13.2%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Mayor - Oakland, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 119,607 ballots cast.


Round 9

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Don Perata  Chart color  45,465  (40.2%)   
Jean Quan  Chart color  35,033  (30.9%)   
Rebecca Kaplan  Chart color  32,719  (28.9%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Mayor - Oakland, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 119,607 ballots cast.


Round 10

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Don Perata  Chart color  51,872  (49.0%)  Defeated
Jean Quan  Chart color  53,897  (51.0%)  Elected
Pie chart

Jean Quan has enough votes to guarantee victory (50%) and is declared a winner.

In the end, 45.1% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 33.7% 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: Mayor - Oakland, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 119,607 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    54.2% 
2nd    31.5% 
3rd    14.3% 
Pie chart