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Round 1 Legend   Richard Stewart (Coquitlam First)   16.0  (27.6%)  Elected Fin Donnelly   7.0  (12.1%)    Lou Sekora   6.0  (10.3%)    Mae Reid   5.0  (8.6%)    Ken Woodward (Coquitlam First)   4.0  (6.9%)    Daniel Chiu (Coquitlam First)   4.0  (6.9%)    Marion Lochhead (Coquitlam First)   4.0  (6.9%)    Andy Radia (Coquitlam First)   4.0  (6.9%)    Wendy Cooper (Coquitlam First)   2.0  (3.4%)    Louella Hollington   2.0  (3.4%)    Ralph Baker   1.0  (1.7%)    Arthur Crossman   1.0  (1.7%)    Michael H. Hejazi   1.0  (1.7%)    Mary Woo Sims   1.0  (1.7%)

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
Richard Stewart (Coquitlam First) has enough votes to guarantee victory (12.1%) and is declared a winner.To ensure that everyone's vote counts equally, votes that exceed that threshold are counted toward their next highest ranking (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

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Round 2 Legend   Richard Stewart (Coquitlam First)   7.0  (12.1%)    Fin Donnelly   7.0  (12.1%)  Elected Lou Sekora   6.0  (10.3%)    Mae Reid   5.0  (8.6%)    Ken Woodward (Coquitlam First)   4.0  (6.9%)    Daniel Chiu (Coquitlam First)   5.7  (9.8%)    Marion Lochhead (Coquitlam First)   5.1  (8.8%)    Andy Radia (Coquitlam First)   6.8  (11.7%)    Wendy Cooper (Coquitlam First)   5.4  (9.3%)    Louella Hollington   2.0  (3.4%)    Ralph Baker   1.0  (1.7%)    Arthur Crossman   1.0  (1.7%)    Michael H. Hejazi   1.0  (1.7%)    Mary Woo Sims   1.0  (1.7%)

Fin Donnelly has enough votes to guarantee victory (12.1%) and is declared a winner.To ensure that everyone's vote counts equally, votes that exceed that threshold are counted toward their next highest ranking (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

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Round 3 Legend   Richard Stewart (Coquitlam First)   7.0  (12.1%)    Fin Donnelly   7.0  (12.1%)    Lou Sekora   6.0  (10.3%)    Mae Reid   5.0  (8.6%)    Ken Woodward (Coquitlam First)   4.0  (6.9%)    Daniel Chiu (Coquitlam First)   5.7  (9.8%)    Marion Lochhead (Coquitlam First)   5.1  (8.8%)    Andy Radia (Coquitlam First)   6.8  (11.7%)    Wendy Cooper (Coquitlam First)   5.4  (9.3%)    Louella Hollington   2.0  (3.4%)    Ralph Baker   1.0  (1.7%)  Defeated Arthur Crossman   1.0  (1.7%)    Michael H. Hejazi   1.0  (1.7%)    Mary Woo Sims   1.0  (1.7%)

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (12.1%), so the last-place candidate (Ralph Baker) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 4 Legend   Richard Stewart (Coquitlam First)   7.0  (12.1%)    Fin Donnelly   7.0  (12.1%)    Lou Sekora   6.0  (10.3%)    Mae Reid   5.0  (8.6%)    Ken Woodward (Coquitlam First)   4.0  (6.9%)    Daniel Chiu (Coquitlam First)   5.7  (9.8%)    Marion Lochhead (Coquitlam First)   5.1  (8.8%)    Andy Radia (Coquitlam First)   6.8  (11.7%)    Wendy Cooper (Coquitlam First)   5.4  (9.3%)    Louella Hollington   2.0  (3.4%)    Arthur Crossman   1.0  (1.7%)    Michael H. Hejazi   2.0  (3.4%)    Mary Woo Sims   1.0  (1.7%)  Defeated

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (12.1%), so the last-place candidate (Mary Woo Sims) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 5 Legend   Richard Stewart (Coquitlam First)   7.0  (12.1%)    Fin Donnelly   7.0  (12.1%)    Lou Sekora   6.0  (10.3%)    Mae Reid   5.0  (8.6%)    Ken Woodward (Coquitlam First)   5.0  (8.6%)    Daniel Chiu (Coquitlam First)   5.7  (9.8%)    Marion Lochhead (Coquitlam First)   5.1  (8.8%)    Andy Radia (Coquitlam First)   6.8  (11.7%)    Wendy Cooper (Coquitlam First)   5.4  (9.3%)    Louella Hollington   2.0  (3.4%)    Arthur Crossman   1.0  (1.7%)  Defeated Michael H. Hejazi   2.0  (3.4%)

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (12.1%), so the last-place candidate (Arthur Crossman) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 6 Legend   Richard Stewart (Coquitlam First)   7.0  (12.1%)    Fin Donnelly   7.0  (12.1%)    Lou Sekora   6.0  (10.3%)    Mae Reid   6.0  (10.3%)    Ken Woodward (Coquitlam First)   5.0  (8.6%)    Daniel Chiu (Coquitlam First)   5.7  (9.8%)    Marion Lochhead (Coquitlam First)   5.1  (8.8%)    Andy Radia (Coquitlam First)   6.8  (11.7%)    Wendy Cooper (Coquitlam First)   5.4  (9.3%)    Louella Hollington   2.0  (3.4%)    Michael H. Hejazi   2.0  (3.4%)  Defeated

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (12.1%), so the last-place candidate (Michael H. Hejazi) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 7 Legend   Richard Stewart (Coquitlam First)   7.0  (12.1%)    Fin Donnelly   7.0  (12.1%)    Lou Sekora   6.0  (10.3%)    Mae Reid   7.0  (12.1%)  Elected Ken Woodward (Coquitlam First)   5.0  (8.6%)    Daniel Chiu (Coquitlam First)   5.7  (9.8%)    Marion Lochhead (Coquitlam First)   5.1  (8.8%)    Andy Radia (Coquitlam First)   6.8  (11.7%)    Wendy Cooper (Coquitlam First)   5.4  (9.3%)    Louella Hollington   3.0  (5.2%)

Mae Reid has enough votes to guarantee victory (12.1%) and is declared a winner.To ensure that everyone's vote counts equally, votes that exceed that threshold are counted toward their next highest ranking (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

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Round 8 Legend   Richard Stewart (Coquitlam First)   7.0  (12.1%)    Fin Donnelly   7.0  (12.1%)    Lou Sekora   6.0  (10.3%)    Mae Reid   7.0  (12.1%)    Ken Woodward (Coquitlam First)   5.0  (8.6%)    Daniel Chiu (Coquitlam First)   5.7  (9.8%)    Marion Lochhead (Coquitlam First)   5.1  (8.8%)    Andy Radia (Coquitlam First)   6.8  (11.7%)    Wendy Cooper (Coquitlam First)   5.4  (9.3%)    Louella Hollington   3.0  (5.2%)  Defeated

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (12.1%), so the last-place candidate (Louella Hollington) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 9 Legend   Richard Stewart (Coquitlam First)   7.0  (12.7%)    Fin Donnelly   7.0  (12.7%)    Lou Sekora   6.0  (10.9%)    Mae Reid   7.0  (12.7%)    Ken Woodward (Coquitlam First)   5.0  (9.1%)  Defeated Daniel Chiu (Coquitlam First)   5.7  (10.3%)    Marion Lochhead (Coquitlam First)   5.1  (9.3%)    Andy Radia (Coquitlam First)   6.8  (12.4%)    Wendy Cooper (Coquitlam First)   5.4  (9.8%)    None of these   3.0  (5.5%)

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (12.1%), so the last-place candidate (Ken Woodward (Coquitlam First)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 10 Legend   Richard Stewart (Coquitlam First)   7.0  (13.2%)  Elected Fin Donnelly   7.0  (13.2%)  Elected Lou Sekora   6.0  (11.3%)  Elected Mae Reid   7.0  (13.2%)  Elected Daniel Chiu (Coquitlam First)   7.7  (14.5%)  Elected Marion Lochhead (Coquitlam First)   5.1  (9.7%)  Elected Andy Radia (Coquitlam First)   6.8  (12.9%)  Elected Wendy Cooper (Coquitlam First)   6.4  (12.0%)  Elected None of these   5.0  (9.4%)

At this point, the number of remaining candidates equals the number of remaining seats, so the remaining candidates are declared elected.
In the end, 91.4% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 86.2% if only the first-round votes were used. 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 8" 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.

Also, view the Ballot Depth info to see how much lower rankings contributed to the tally.

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Rank   Fraction of votes for winners 1st  73.6%    2nd  22.6%    3rd  1.9%    7th  1.9%