DemoChoice Web Poll: Board of Supervisors, District 8 - San Francisco, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 34,950 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Scott Wiener  Chart color  14,813  (42.4%)   
Rafael Mandelman  Chart color  12,433  (35.6%)   
Rebecca Prozan  Chart color  5,872  (16.8%)   
Bill Hemenger  Chart color  1,802  (5.2%)   
Write-In  Chart color  30  (0.1%)  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: Board of Supervisors, District 8 - San Francisco, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 34,950 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Scott Wiener  Chart color  14,815  (42.4%)   
Rafael Mandelman  Chart color  12,434  (35.6%)   
Rebecca Prozan  Chart color  5,873  (16.8%)   
Bill Hemenger  Chart color  1,802  (5.2%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Board of Supervisors, District 8 - San Francisco, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 34,950 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Scott Wiener  Chart color  15,419  (45.0%)   
Rafael Mandelman  Chart color  12,649  (36.9%)   
Rebecca Prozan  Chart color  6,218  (18.1%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Board of Supervisors, District 8 - San Francisco, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 34,950 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Scott Wiener  Chart color  18,239  (55.4%)  Elected
Rafael Mandelman  Chart color  14,687  (44.6%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

In the end, 52.2% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 42.4% 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: Board of Supervisors, District 8 - San Francisco, 2010

1 candidate will be elected with 34,950 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    81.1% 
2nd    16.6% 
3rd    2.2% 
Pie chart