DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 Oakland School Director, District 1

1 candidate will be elected with 34,502 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Sam Davis  Chart color  16,374  (47.5%)   
Austin Dannhaus  Chart color  11,630  (33.7%)   
Stacy Thomas  Chart color  6,350  (18.4%)   
Write-In  Chart color  148  (0.4%)  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.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 Oakland School Director, District 1

1 candidate will be elected with 34,502 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Sam Davis  Chart color  16,400  (47.6%)   
Austin Dannhaus  Chart color  11,655  (33.8%)   
Stacy Thomas  Chart color  6,384  (18.5%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 Oakland School Director, District 1

1 candidate will be elected with 34,502 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Sam Davis  Chart color  20,992  (62.5%)  Elected
Austin Dannhaus  Chart color  12,580  (37.5%)  Defeated
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Sam Davis has enough votes to guarantee victory (50%) and is declared a winner.

In the end, 60.8% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 47.5% 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 Oakland School Director, District 1

1 candidate will be elected with 34,502 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    78.0% 
2nd    21.9% 
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