DemoChoice Web Poll: California Insurance Commissioner

1 candidate will be elected with 2,570 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Steve Poizner, Businessman/Entrepreneur (Republican)   Chart color  673  (26.2%)   
Cruz Bustamante, California Lt. Governor (Democratic)   Chart color  629  (24.5%)   
Dale Ogden, Actuary/Insurance Consultant (Libertarian)   Chart color  359  (14.0%)   
Larry Cafiero, Newspaper Editor (Green)   Chart color  356  (13.9%)   
Jay Burden, Student (American Independent)   Chart color  332  (12.9%)   
Tom Condit, Writer (Peace and Freedom)   Chart color  221  (8.6%)  Defeated
Pie chart

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
The last-place candidate (Tom Condit, Writer (Peace and Freedom)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: California Insurance Commissioner

1 candidate will be elected with 2,570 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Steve Poizner, Businessman/Entrepreneur (Republican)   Chart color  673  (26.3%)   
Cruz Bustamante, California Lt. Governor (Democratic)   Chart color  646  (25.2%)   
Dale Ogden, Actuary/Insurance Consultant (Libertarian)   Chart color  361  (14.1%)   
Larry Cafiero, Newspaper Editor (Green)   Chart color  548  (21.4%)   
Jay Burden, Student (American Independent)   Chart color  332  (13.0%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Jay Burden, Student (American Independent)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: California Insurance Commissioner

1 candidate will be elected with 2,570 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Steve Poizner, Businessman/Entrepreneur (Republican)   Chart color  929  (36.6%)   
Cruz Bustamante, California Lt. Governor (Democratic)   Chart color  656  (25.8%)   
Dale Ogden, Actuary/Insurance Consultant (Libertarian)   Chart color  382  (15.0%)  Defeated
Larry Cafiero, Newspaper Editor (Green)   Chart color  572  (22.5%)   
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Dale Ogden, Actuary/Insurance Consultant (Libertarian)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: California Insurance Commissioner

1 candidate will be elected with 2,570 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Steve Poizner, Businessman/Entrepreneur (Republican)   Chart color  1,227  (48.6%)   
Cruz Bustamante, California Lt. Governor (Democratic)   Chart color  679  (26.9%)   
Larry Cafiero, Newspaper Editor (Green)   Chart color  620  (24.5%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Larry Cafiero, Newspaper Editor (Green)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: California Insurance Commissioner

1 candidate will be elected with 2,570 ballots cast.


Round 5

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Steve Poizner, Businessman/Entrepreneur (Republican)   Chart color  1,302  (52.1%)  Elected
Cruz Bustamante, California Lt. Governor (Democratic)   Chart color  1,195  (47.9%)  Defeated
Pie chart

Steve Poizner, Businessman/Entrepreneur (Republican) has enough votes to guarantee victory (50%) and is declared a winner.

In the end, 50.7% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 26.2% if only the first-round votes were used.

Also, view the Ballot Depth info to see how much lower rankings contributed to the tally.

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DemoChoice Web Poll: California Insurance Commissioner

1 candidate will be elected with 2,570 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    51.7% 
2nd    41.6% 
3rd    5.0% 
4th    1.5% 
5th    0.3% 
Pie chart