DemoChoice Web Poll: Executive Committee election

2 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Aaron Retish  Chart color  5.0  (41.7%)  Elected
Reyna Esquivel-King  Chart color  4.0  (33.3%)   
John Bukowczyk  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)   
Hans Hummer  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)   
Sandra Van Burkleo  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)   
Pie chart

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
Aaron Retish has enough votes to guarantee victory (33.3%) 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: Executive Committee election

2 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Aaron Retish  Chart color  4.0  (33.3%)   
Reyna Esquivel-King  Chart color  4.0  (33.3%)   
John Bukowczyk  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)   
Hans Hummer  Chart color  1.4  (11.7%)   
Sandra Van Burkleo  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)   
Jorge Chinea  Chart color  0.4  (3.3%)   
Howard Lupovitch  Chart color  0.2  (1.7%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Executive Committee election

2 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Aaron Retish  Chart color  4.0  (33.3%)   
Reyna Esquivel-King  Chart color  4.0  (33.3%)   
John Bukowczyk  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)   
Hans Hummer  Chart color  1.4  (11.7%)   
Sandra Van Burkleo  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)   
Jorge Chinea  Chart color  0.6  (5.0%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Executive Committee election

2 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Aaron Retish  Chart color  4.0  (33.3%)   
Reyna Esquivel-King  Chart color  4.2  (35.0%)   
John Bukowczyk  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)  Defeated
Hans Hummer  Chart color  1.8  (15.0%)   
Sandra Van Burkleo  Chart color  1.0  (8.3%)   
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Executive Committee election

2 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 5

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Aaron Retish  Chart color  4.0  (33.3%)   
Reyna Esquivel-King  Chart color  4.2  (35.0%)   
Hans Hummer  Chart color  1.8  (15.0%)  Defeated
Sandra Van Burkleo  Chart color  2.0  (16.7%)   
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Executive Committee election

2 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 6

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Aaron Retish  Chart color  4.6  (41.8%)   
Reyna Esquivel-King  Chart color  4.2  (38.2%)   
Sandra Van Burkleo  Chart color  2.2  (20.0%)  Defeated
None of these  Chart color  1.0  (9.1%)   
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Executive Committee election

2 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 7

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Aaron Retish  Chart color  5.8  (52.7%)  Elected
Reyna Esquivel-King  Chart color  5.2  (47.3%)   
None of these  Chart color  1.0  (9.1%)   
Pie chart

Aaron Retish has enough votes to guarantee victory (33.3%) 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: Executive Committee election

2 candidates will be elected with 12 ballots cast.


Round 8

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Aaron Retish  Chart color  5.5  (50.0%)  Elected
Reyna Esquivel-King  Chart color  5.5  (50.0%)  Elected
None of these  Chart color  1.0  (9.1%)   
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, 91.7% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 75% 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 2" 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: Executive Committee election

2 candidates will be elected with 12 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    77.3% 
2nd    9.1% 
4th    9.1% 
6th    1.5% 
7th    3.0% 
Pie chart