DemoChoice Web Poll: 2024 Albany Board of Education, Electing 2
2 candidates will be elected with 2 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Final Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Round 1    
------------------------------------- 33.3%
Veronica Davidson   1.00  (50.0%) 
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Jolene Gazmen  1.00  (50.0%) 
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Results  
Veronica Davidson Elected 
Jolene GazmenElected 

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, view the table form, or ask a question.
The dotted line represents the number of votes that guarantees victory (33.3% of counted votes).

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
A tie was resolved by choosing a candidate at random.
Veronica Davidson has enough votes to guarantee victory and is declared a winner.
In the end, 100% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. You should be able to see that the winners have a more equal mandate in the final round than in the first round.

Note that even the "highest first-round votes" method is more democratic than most methods used in US public elections: the "vote for 2" method, which allows the largest block of voters to dominate, and the district method, where choices are restricted to the one or two viable candidates within geographical boundaries drawn by the politicians in office.

The Ballot Depth section shows how much lower rankings contributed to the tally.

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DemoChoice Web Poll: 2024 Albany Board of Education, Electing 2
2 candidates will be elected with 2 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Final Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Ballot Depth: This shows how much the lower rankings on ballots contributed to the winning candidates.

Rank Fraction of votes for winners
1st 100.0% 
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