DemoChoice Web Poll: Board of Supervisors, District 9 - San Francisco, 2008

1 candidate will be elected with 26,486 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
David Campos  Chart color  9,468  (35.7%)   
Mark Sanchez  Chart color  7,648  (28.9%)   
Eric Quezada  Chart color  5,352  (20.2%)   
Eva Royale  Chart color  1,842  (7.0%)   
Tom Valtin  Chart color  862  (3.3%)   
Eric Storey  Chart color  806  (3.0%)   
Vern Mathews  Chart color  469  (1.8%)   
Write-In  Chart color  39  (0.1%)  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: Board of Supervisors, District 9 - San Francisco, 2008

1 candidate will be elected with 26,486 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
David Campos  Chart color  9,472  (35.8%)   
Mark Sanchez  Chart color  7,648  (28.9%)   
Eric Quezada  Chart color  5,355  (20.2%)   
Eva Royale  Chart color  1,842  (7.0%)   
Tom Valtin  Chart color  862  (3.3%)   
Eric Storey  Chart color  806  (3.0%)   
Vern Mathews  Chart color  470  (1.8%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Vern Mathews) 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 9 - San Francisco, 2008

1 candidate will be elected with 26,486 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
David Campos  Chart color  9,515  (36.1%)   
Mark Sanchez  Chart color  7,728  (29.3%)   
Eric Quezada  Chart color  5,382  (20.4%)   
Eva Royale  Chart color  1,911  (7.2%)   
Tom Valtin  Chart color  916  (3.5%)  Defeated
Eric Storey  Chart color  926  (3.5%)   
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Tom Valtin) 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 9 - San Francisco, 2008

1 candidate will be elected with 26,486 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
David Campos  Chart color  9,761  (37.2%)   
Mark Sanchez  Chart color  7,883  (30.0%)   
Eric Quezada  Chart color  5,506  (21.0%)   
Eva Royale  Chart color  2,038  (7.8%)   
Eric Storey  Chart color  1,047  (4.0%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Eric Storey) 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 9 - San Francisco, 2008

1 candidate will be elected with 26,486 ballots cast.


Round 5

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
David Campos  Chart color  9,924  (38.5%)   
Mark Sanchez  Chart color  8,015  (31.1%)   
Eric Quezada  Chart color  5,602  (21.7%)   
Eva Royale  Chart color  2,253  (8.7%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Eva Royale) 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 9 - San Francisco, 2008

1 candidate will be elected with 26,486 ballots cast.


Round 6

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
David Campos  Chart color  10,387  (41.6%)   
Mark Sanchez  Chart color  8,623  (34.5%)   
Eric Quezada  Chart color  5,964  (23.9%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Eric Quezada) 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 9 - San Francisco, 2008

1 candidate will be elected with 26,486 ballots cast.


Round 7

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
David Campos  Chart color  12,637  (53.8%)  Elected
Mark Sanchez  Chart color  10,837  (46.2%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

In the end, 47.7% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 35.7% 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: Board of Supervisors, District 9 - San Francisco, 2008

1 candidate will be elected with 26,486 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    74.7% 
2nd    20.6% 
3rd    4.7% 
Pie chart