DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 Oakland City Council, District 3
1 candidate will be elected with 30,696 ballots cast.

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

Round 1    
------------------------------------------------------- 50%
Carroll Fife  15,046  (49.0%) 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD _ :
Lynette Gibson McElhaney  9,297  (30.3%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ______________________ :
Seneca Scott  2,096  (6.8%) 
FFFFFFF ________________________________________________ :
Meron Semedar  2,001  (6.5%) 
BBBBBBB ________________________________________________ :
Alexus Taylor  1,373  (4.5%) 
AAAAA __________________________________________________ :
Faye Taylor  720  (2.3%) 
EE _____________________________________________________ :
Write-In  163  (0.5%) 
_______________________________________________________ :
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Write-In Defeated
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 (50% of counted votes).

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.

New colors:
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None of these

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DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 Oakland City Council, District 3
1 candidate will be elected with 30,696 ballots cast.

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

Round 2    
------------------------------------------------------- 50%
Carroll Fife  15,067  (49.2%) 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD _ :
Lynette Gibson McElhaney  9,310  (30.4%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ______________________ :
Seneca Scott  2,128  (6.9%) 
FFFFFFF ________________________________________________ :
Meron Semedar  2,017  (6.6%) 
BBBBBBB ________________________________________________ :
Alexus Taylor  1,386  (4.5%) 
AAAAA __________________________________________________ :
Faye Taylor  733  (2.4%) 
EEE ____________________________________________________ :
None of these  55   
_______________________________________________________
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Faye Taylor Defeated
A D
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 (50% of counted votes).

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

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DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 Oakland City Council, District 3
1 candidate will be elected with 30,696 ballots cast.

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

Round 3    
------------------------------------------------------- 50%
Carroll Fife  15,203  (49.9%) 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD _ :
Lynette Gibson McElhaney  9,415  (30.9%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC _____________________ :
Seneca Scott  2,302  (7.6%) 
FFFFFFFFF ______________________________________________ :
Meron Semedar  2,096  (6.9%) 
BBBBBBBB _______________________________________________ :
Alexus Taylor  1,473  (4.8%) 
AAAAAA _________________________________________________ :
None of these  207   
_______________________________________________________
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Alexus Taylor Defeated
BB C D H
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 (50% of counted votes).

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

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DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 Oakland City Council, District 3
1 candidate will be elected with 30,696 ballots cast.

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

Round 4    
------------------------------------------------------ 50%
Carroll Fife  15,429  (51.1%) 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD :D
Lynette Gibson McElhaney  9,687  (32.1%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ____________________ :
Seneca Scott  2,447  (8.1%) 
FFFFFFFFF _____________________________________________ :
Meron Semedar  2,631  (8.7%) 
BBBBBBBBB _____________________________________________ :
None of these  502   
HH ____________________________________________________
   
Results  
Meron SemedarDefeated 
Lynette Gibson McElhaneyDefeated 
Carroll FifeElected 
Seneca ScottDefeated 
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 (50% of counted votes).

Carroll Fife has enough votes to guarantee victory 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.

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


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DemoChoice Web Poll: 2020 Oakland City Council, District 3
1 candidate will be elected with 30,696 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 candidate.

Rank Fraction of votes for winner
1st 97.5% 
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2nd 2.2% 
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3rd 0.2%