DemoChoice Web Poll: Albany Board of Education, November 2022
3 candidates will be elected with 6,481 ballots cast.
Round 1
| Candidate | Votes | Status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Rosenbaum |
|
3,214.0 | (49.6%) | Elected | |
| Sadia Khan |
|
1,750.0 | (27.0%) | ||
| Becky Hopwood |
|
1,316.0 | (20.3%) | ||
| Lucy Baird |
|
169.0 | (2.6%) | ||
| Write-in 1 |
|
29.0 | (0.4%) | ||
| Write-in 2 |
|
3.0 | (0.0%) | ||
In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
Ron Rosenbaum has enough votes to guarantee victory
(25%) 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: Albany Board of Education, November 2022
3 candidates will be elected with 6,481 ballots cast.
Round 2
| Candidate | Votes | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Rosenbaum |
|
1,620.3 | (25.0%) | |
| Sadia Khan |
|
1,750.0 | (27.0%) | |
| Becky Hopwood |
|
2,470.9 | (38.1%) | |
| Lucy Baird |
|
603.7 | (9.3%) | Defeated |
| Write-in 1 |
|
32.0 | (0.5%) | |
| Write-in 2 |
|
3.6 | (0.1%) | |
| Write-in 3 |
|
0.6 | (0.0%) | |
The last-place candidate (Lucy Baird) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Go to the next round.
DemoChoice Web Poll: Albany Board of Education, November 2022
3 candidates will be elected with 6,481 ballots cast.
Round 3
| Candidate | Votes | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Rosenbaum |
|
2,087.5 | (32.3%) | |
| Sadia Khan |
|
1,791.0 | (27.7%) | |
| Becky Hopwood |
|
2,528.9 | (39.1%) | |
| Write-in 1 |
|
49.8 | (0.8%) | Defeated |
| Write-in 2 |
|
4.2 | (0.1%) | |
| Write-in 3 |
|
1.6 | (0.0%) | |
| None of these |
|
18.0 | (0.3%) | |
The last-place candidate (Write-in 1) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Go to the next round.
DemoChoice Web Poll: Albany Board of Education, November 2022
3 candidates will be elected with 6,481 ballots cast.
Round 4
| Candidate | Votes | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Rosenbaum |
|
2,111.1 | (32.7%) | |
| Sadia Khan |
|
1,795.0 | (27.8%) | |
| Becky Hopwood |
|
2,535.9 | (39.3%) | |
| Write-in 2 |
|
14.4 | (0.2%) | Defeated |
| Write-in 3 |
|
1.6 | (0.0%) | |
| None of these |
|
23.0 | (0.4%) | |
The last-place candidate (Write-in 2) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Go to the next round.
DemoChoice Web Poll: Albany Board of Education, November 2022
3 candidates will be elected with 6,481 ballots cast.
Round 5
| Candidate | Votes | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Rosenbaum |
|
2,113.9 | (32.7%) | |
| Sadia Khan |
|
1,796.0 | (27.8%) | |
| Becky Hopwood |
|
2,536.9 | (39.3%) | |
| Write-in 3 |
|
10.2 | (0.2%) | Defeated |
| None of these |
|
24.0 | (0.4%) | |
The last-place candidate (Write-in 3) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Go to the next round.
DemoChoice Web Poll: Albany Board of Education, November 2022
3 candidates will be elected with 6,481 ballots cast.
Round 6
| Candidate | Votes | Status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Rosenbaum |
|
2,115.1 | (32.8%) | ||
| Sadia Khan |
|
1,796.0 | (27.8%) | ||
| Becky Hopwood |
|
2,537.9 | (39.4%) | Elected | |
| None of these |
|
32.0 | (0.5%) | ||
Becky Hopwood has enough votes to guarantee victory (25%) 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: Albany Board of Education, November 2022
3 candidates will be elected with 6,481 ballots cast.
Round 7
| Candidate | Votes | Status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Rosenbaum |
|
2,496.3 | (38.7%) | Elected | |
| Sadia Khan |
|
1,803.1 | (28.0%) | ||
| Becky Hopwood |
|
2,149.7 | (33.3%) | ||
| None of these |
|
32.0 | (0.5%) | ||
Ron Rosenbaum has enough votes to guarantee victory (25%) 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: Albany Board of Education, November 2022
3 candidates will be elected with 6,481 ballots cast.
Round 8
| Candidate | Votes | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Rosenbaum |
|
2,149.7 | (33.3%) | Elected |
| Sadia Khan |
|
2,149.7 | (33.3%) | Elected |
| Becky Hopwood |
|
2,149.7 | (33.3%) | Elected |
| None of these |
|
32.0 | (0.5%) | |
At this point, the number of remaining candidates equals the number of remaining seats, so the remaining candidates are declared elected.
In the end, 99.5% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 96.9% 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 3" 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: Albany Board of Education, November 2022
3 candidates will be elected with 6,481 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 |
|
80.0% | |
| 2nd |
|
12.6% | |
| 3rd |
|
7.0% | |
| 4th |
|
0.5% | |