DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 7

1 candidate will be elected with 39,332 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Joel Engardio  Chart color  9,272  (23.6%)   
Vilaska Nguyen  Chart color  8,263  (21.0%)   
Myrna Melgar  Chart color  7,881  (20.0%)   
Emily Murase  Chart color  4,934  (12.5%)   
Stephen W. Martin-Pinto  Chart color  4,599  (11.7%)   
Ben Matranga  Chart color  3,414  (8.7%)   
Ken Piper  Chart color  969  (2.5%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 7

1 candidate will be elected with 39,332 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Joel Engardio  Chart color  9,423  (24.0%)   
Vilaska Nguyen  Chart color  8,404  (21.4%)   
Myrna Melgar  Chart color  7,995  (20.4%)   
Emily Murase  Chart color  5,011  (12.8%)   
Stephen W. Martin-Pinto  Chart color  4,830  (12.3%)   
Ben Matranga  Chart color  3,581  (9.1%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 7

1 candidate will be elected with 39,332 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Joel Engardio  Chart color  10,391  (26.7%)   
Vilaska Nguyen  Chart color  8,740  (22.5%)   
Myrna Melgar  Chart color  8,667  (22.3%)   
Emily Murase  Chart color  5,500  (14.1%)  Defeated
Stephen W. Martin-Pinto  Chart color  5,597  (14.4%)   
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 7

1 candidate will be elected with 39,332 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Joel Engardio  Chart color  11,561  (30.3%)   
Vilaska Nguyen  Chart color  9,810  (25.7%)   
Myrna Melgar  Chart color  10,628  (27.9%)   
Stephen W. Martin-Pinto  Chart color  6,147  (16.1%)  Defeated
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 7

1 candidate will be elected with 39,332 ballots cast.


Round 5

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Joel Engardio  Chart color  14,119  (38.5%)   
Vilaska Nguyen  Chart color  10,855  (29.6%)  Defeated
Myrna Melgar  Chart color  11,652  (31.8%)   
Pie chart

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

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 7

1 candidate will be elected with 39,332 ballots cast.


Round 6

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Joel Engardio  Chart color  16,370  (46.9%)  Defeated
Myrna Melgar  Chart color  18,561  (53.1%)  Elected
Pie chart

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

In the end, 47.2% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 23.6% 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 San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 7

1 candidate will be elected with 39,332 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    42.5% 
2nd    40.0% 
3rd    9.6% 
4th    4.3% 
5th    2.6% 
6th    1.1% 
Pie chart