DemoChoice Web Poll: New Zealand, Mosgiel Subdivision, 2004
by DemoChoice rules

4 candidates will be elected with 4,741 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Chris ADAMS  Chart color  1,438.0  (30.3%)  Elected
Brian CASHMERE  Chart color  959.0  (20.2%)   
Lester HARVEY  Chart color  768.0  (16.2%)   
Martin DILLON  Chart color  694.0  (14.6%)   
John M HANRAHAN  Chart color  447.0  (9.4%)   
Bill FEATHER  Chart color  435.0  (9.2%)   
Pie chart

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
Chris ADAMS has enough votes to guarantee victory (20%) 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: New Zealand, Mosgiel Subdivision, 2004
by DemoChoice rules

4 candidates will be elected with 4,741 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Chris ADAMS  Chart color  948.2  (20.0%)   
Brian CASHMERE  Chart color  959.0  (20.2%)  Elected
Lester HARVEY  Chart color  856.5  (18.1%)   
Martin DILLON  Chart color  909.9  (19.2%)   
John M HANRAHAN  Chart color  544.7  (11.5%)   
Bill FEATHER  Chart color  522.7  (11.0%)   
Pie chart

Brian CASHMERE has enough votes to guarantee victory (20%) 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: New Zealand, Mosgiel Subdivision, 2004
by DemoChoice rules

4 candidates will be elected with 4,741 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Chris ADAMS  Chart color  948.2  (20.0%)   
Brian CASHMERE  Chart color  948.2  (20.0%)   
Lester HARVEY  Chart color  860.2  (18.1%)   
Martin DILLON  Chart color  913.1  (19.3%)   
John M HANRAHAN  Chart color  546.8  (11.5%)   
Bill FEATHER  Chart color  524.5  (11.1%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: New Zealand, Mosgiel Subdivision, 2004
by DemoChoice rules

4 candidates will be elected with 4,741 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Chris ADAMS  Chart color  976.6  (20.8%)   
Brian CASHMERE  Chart color  958.4  (20.4%)   
Lester HARVEY  Chart color  1,008.7  (21.5%)   
Martin DILLON  Chart color  1,037.4  (22.1%)   
John M HANRAHAN  Chart color  713.9  (15.2%)  Defeated
None of these  Chart color  46.0  (1.0%)   
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: New Zealand, Mosgiel Subdivision, 2004
by DemoChoice rules

4 candidates will be elected with 4,741 ballots cast.


Round 5

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Chris ADAMS  Chart color  1,254.6  (27.1%)  Elected
Brian CASHMERE  Chart color  1,082.3  (23.4%)   
Lester HARVEY  Chart color  1,154.7  (24.9%)   
Martin DILLON  Chart color  1,137.4  (24.6%)   
None of these  Chart color  112.0  (2.4%)   
Pie chart

Chris ADAMS has enough votes to guarantee victory (20%) 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: New Zealand, Mosgiel Subdivision, 2004
by DemoChoice rules

4 candidates will be elected with 4,741 ballots cast.


Round 6

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Chris ADAMS  Chart color  1,157.3  (25.0%)   
Brian CASHMERE  Chart color  1,122.0  (24.2%)   
Lester HARVEY  Chart color  1,174.2  (25.4%)   
Martin DILLON  Chart color  1,175.6  (25.4%)  Elected
None of these  Chart color  112.0  (2.4%)   
Pie chart

Martin DILLON has enough votes to guarantee victory (20%) 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: New Zealand, Mosgiel Subdivision, 2004
by DemoChoice rules

4 candidates will be elected with 4,741 ballots cast.


Round 7

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Chris ADAMS  Chart color  1,157.3  (25.0%)   
Brian CASHMERE  Chart color  1,140.4  (24.6%)   
Lester HARVEY  Chart color  1,174.2  (25.4%)  Elected
Martin DILLON  Chart color  1,157.3  (25.0%)   
None of these  Chart color  112.0  (2.4%)   
Pie chart

Lester HARVEY has enough votes to guarantee victory (20%) 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: New Zealand, Mosgiel Subdivision, 2004
by DemoChoice rules

4 candidates will be elected with 4,741 ballots cast.


Round 8

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Chris ADAMS  Chart color  1,157.3  (25.0%)  Elected
Brian CASHMERE  Chart color  1,157.3  (25.0%)  Elected
Lester HARVEY  Chart color  1,157.3  (25.0%)  Elected
Martin DILLON  Chart color  1,157.3  (25.0%)  Elected
None of these  Chart color  112.0  (2.4%)   
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, 97.6% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 81.4% 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 4" 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: New Zealand, Mosgiel Subdivision, 2004
by DemoChoice rules

4 candidates will be elected with 4,741 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    75.7% 
2nd    15.4% 
3rd    6.4% 
4th    2.5% 
Pie chart