DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 Oakland City Council, District 3

1 candidate will be elected with 30,696 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Carroll Fife  Chart color  15,046  (49.0%)   
Lynette Gibson McElhaney  Chart color  9,297  (30.3%)   
Seneca Scott  Chart color  2,096  (6.8%)   
Meron Semedar  Chart color  2,001  (6.5%)   
Alexus Taylor  Chart color  1,373  (4.5%)   
Faye Taylor  Chart color  720  (2.3%)   
Write-In  Chart color  163  (0.5%)  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: 2020 Oakland City Council, District 3

1 candidate will be elected with 30,696 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Carroll Fife  Chart color  15,067  (49.2%)   
Lynette Gibson McElhaney  Chart color  9,310  (30.4%)   
Seneca Scott  Chart color  2,128  (6.9%)   
Meron Semedar  Chart color  2,017  (6.6%)   
Alexus Taylor  Chart color  1,386  (4.5%)   
Faye Taylor  Chart color  733  (2.4%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 Oakland City Council, District 3

1 candidate will be elected with 30,696 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Carroll Fife  Chart color  15,203  (49.9%)   
Lynette Gibson McElhaney  Chart color  9,415  (30.9%)   
Seneca Scott  Chart color  2,302  (7.6%)   
Meron Semedar  Chart color  2,096  (6.9%)   
Alexus Taylor  Chart color  1,473  (4.8%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 Oakland City Council, District 3

1 candidate will be elected with 30,696 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Carroll Fife  Chart color  15,429  (51.1%)  Elected
Lynette Gibson McElhaney  Chart color  9,687  (32.1%)  Defeated
Seneca Scott  Chart color  2,447  (8.1%)  Defeated
Meron Semedar  Chart color  2,631  (8.7%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

In the end, 50.3% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 49% 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: 2020 Oakland City Council, District 3

1 candidate will be elected with 30,696 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    97.5% 
2nd    2.2% 
3rd    0.2% 
Pie chart