DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 Berkeley City Council, District 2

1 candidate will be elected with 8,194 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Terry Taplin  Chart color  3,218  (39.3%)   
Cheryl Davila  Chart color  2,419  (29.5%)   
Alex Sharenko  Chart color  1,965  (24.0%)   
Timothy W. Carter  Chart color  554  (6.8%)   
Write-In  Chart color  38  (0.5%)  Defeated
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In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
The last-place candidate (Write-In) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 Berkeley City Council, District 2

1 candidate will be elected with 8,194 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Terry Taplin  Chart color  3,222  (39.4%)   
Cheryl Davila  Chart color  2,423  (29.6%)   
Alex Sharenko  Chart color  1,974  (24.1%)   
Timothy W. Carter  Chart color  562  (6.9%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 Berkeley City Council, District 2

1 candidate will be elected with 8,194 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Terry Taplin  Chart color  3,415  (42.4%)   
Cheryl Davila  Chart color  2,513  (31.2%)   
Alex Sharenko  Chart color  2,122  (26.4%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 Berkeley City Council, District 2

1 candidate will be elected with 8,194 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Terry Taplin  Chart color  4,756  (62.2%)  Elected
Cheryl Davila  Chart color  2,885  (37.8%)  Defeated
Pie chart

Terry Taplin has enough votes to guarantee victory (50%) and is declared a winner.

In the end, 58% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 39.3% 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: 2020 Berkeley City Council, District 2

1 candidate will be elected with 8,194 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    67.7% 
2nd    26.7% 
3rd    5.5% 
4th    0.2% 
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