DemoChoice Web Poll: Member, City Council, Dist. 3 - Oakland (RCV)

1 candidate will be elected with 26,761 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Sean Sullivan  Chart color  5,736  (26.0%)   
Lynette Gibson-McElhaney  Chart color  5,207  (23.6%)   
Nyeisha DeWitt  Chart color  3,906  (17.7%)   
Derrick Muhammad  Chart color  3,152  (14.3%)   
Alex Miller-Cole  Chart color  2,003  (9.1%)   
Larry Lionel Young, Jr.  Chart color  1,959  (8.9%)   
Write-In  Chart color  132  (0.6%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Member, City Council, Dist. 3 - Oakland (RCV)

1 candidate will be elected with 26,761 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Sean Sullivan  Chart color  5,739  (26.1%)   
Lynette Gibson-McElhaney  Chart color  5,213  (23.7%)   
Nyeisha DeWitt  Chart color  3,911  (17.8%)   
Derrick Muhammad  Chart color  3,153  (14.3%)   
Alex Miller-Cole  Chart color  2,010  (9.1%)   
Larry Lionel Young, Jr.  Chart color  1,965  (8.9%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Larry Lionel Young, Jr.) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Member, City Council, Dist. 3 - Oakland (RCV)

1 candidate will be elected with 26,761 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Sean Sullivan  Chart color  6,136  (28.5%)   
Lynette Gibson-McElhaney  Chart color  5,507  (25.6%)   
Nyeisha DeWitt  Chart color  4,263  (19.8%)   
Derrick Muhammad  Chart color  3,510  (16.3%)   
Alex Miller-Cole  Chart color  2,129  (9.9%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Member, City Council, Dist. 3 - Oakland (RCV)

1 candidate will be elected with 26,761 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Sean Sullivan  Chart color  6,617  (31.5%)   
Lynette Gibson-McElhaney  Chart color  5,940  (28.2%)   
Nyeisha DeWitt  Chart color  4,748  (22.6%)   
Derrick Muhammad  Chart color  3,733  (17.7%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Member, City Council, Dist. 3 - Oakland (RCV)

1 candidate will be elected with 26,761 ballots cast.


Round 5

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Sean Sullivan  Chart color  7,147  (35.6%)   
Lynette Gibson-McElhaney  Chart color  6,838  (34.1%)   
Nyeisha DeWitt  Chart color  6,067  (30.3%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Member, City Council, Dist. 3 - Oakland (RCV)

1 candidate will be elected with 26,761 ballots cast.


Round 6

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Sean Sullivan  Chart color  8,030  (46.1%)  Defeated
Lynette Gibson-McElhaney  Chart color  9,397  (53.9%)  Elected
Pie chart

Lynette Gibson-McElhaney has enough votes to guarantee victory (50%) and is declared a winner.

In the end, 35.1% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 21.4% if only the first-round votes were used.

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
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Member, City Council, Dist. 3 - Oakland (RCV)

1 candidate will be elected with 26,761 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    55.2% 
2nd    26.0% 
3rd    18.8% 
Pie chart