DemoChoice Web Poll: Mayor - San Leandro, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 23,494 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Anthony B. 'Tony' Santos  Chart color  7,982  (35.5%)   
Stephen H. Cassidy  Chart color  7,908  (35.2%)   
Joyce Rutledge Starosciak  Chart color  5,206  (23.2%)   
Sara M. Mestas  Chart color  925  (4.1%)   
John R. Palau  Chart color  390  (1.7%)   
Write-In  Chart color  64  (0.3%)   
Lou Filipovich  Chart color  9  (0.0%)  Defeated
Pie chart

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
The last-place candidate (Lou Filipovich) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Mayor - San Leandro, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 23,494 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Anthony B. 'Tony' Santos  Chart color  7,982  (35.5%)   
Stephen H. Cassidy  Chart color  7,910  (35.2%)   
Joyce Rutledge Starosciak  Chart color  5,206  (23.2%)   
Sara M. Mestas  Chart color  925  (4.1%)   
John R. Palau  Chart color  394  (1.8%)   
Write-In  Chart color  64  (0.3%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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 - San Leandro, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 23,494 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Anthony B. 'Tony' Santos  Chart color  7,987  (35.6%)   
Stephen H. Cassidy  Chart color  7,913  (35.3%)   
Joyce Rutledge Starosciak  Chart color  5,208  (23.2%)   
Sara M. Mestas  Chart color  926  (4.1%)   
John R. Palau  Chart color  396  (1.8%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Mayor - San Leandro, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 23,494 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Anthony B. 'Tony' Santos  Chart color  8,050  (36.0%)   
Stephen H. Cassidy  Chart color  7,997  (35.8%)   
Joyce Rutledge Starosciak  Chart color  5,259  (23.5%)   
Sara M. Mestas  Chart color  1,035  (4.6%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Mayor - San Leandro, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 23,494 ballots cast.


Round 5

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Anthony B. 'Tony' Santos  Chart color  8,288  (37.5%)   
Stephen H. Cassidy  Chart color  8,300  (37.5%)   
Joyce Rutledge Starosciak  Chart color  5,518  (25.0%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Mayor - San Leandro, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 23,494 ballots cast.


Round 6

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Anthony B. 'Tony' Santos  Chart color  10,045  (49.4%)  Defeated
Stephen H. Cassidy  Chart color  10,277  (50.6%)  Elected
Pie chart

Stephen H. Cassidy has enough votes to guarantee victory (50%) and is declared a winner.

In the end, 43.7% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 34% 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 - San Leandro, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 23,494 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    76.8% 
2nd    18.8% 
3rd    4.4% 
Pie chart