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Round 1 Legend   Barbara Perrault    5.0  (19.2%)  Elected David Perfitt    4.0  (15.4%)    Craig Keating   3.0  (11.5%)    Pam Bookham   2.0  (7.7%)    Sue Cook   2.0  (7.7%)    Bob Fearnley   2.0  (7.7%)    Bob Heywood   2.0  (7.7%)    Jason Kanigan   2.0  (7.7%)    Sherry Shaghaghi   2.0  (7.7%)    Alfredo De Lucrezia   1.0  (3.8%)    Hamid Najian   1.0  (3.8%)

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
Barbara Perrault has enough votes to guarantee victory (15.4%) 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   Barbara Perrault    4.0  (15.4%)    David Perfitt    4.0  (15.4%)  Elected Craig Keating   3.2  (12.3%)    Pam Bookham   2.0  (7.7%)    Sue Cook   2.0  (7.7%)    Bob Fearnley   2.2  (8.5%)    Bob Heywood   2.2  (8.5%)    Jason Kanigan   2.0  (7.7%)    Sherry Shaghaghi   2.0  (7.7%)    Alfredo De Lucrezia   1.0  (3.8%)    Hamid Najian   1.0  (3.8%)    Sam Schechter    0.2  (0.8%)    Marlene Unger   0.2  (0.8%)

David Perfitt has enough votes to guarantee victory (15.4%) 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   Barbara Perrault    4.0  (15.4%)    David Perfitt    4.0  (15.4%)    Craig Keating   3.2  (12.3%)    Pam Bookham   2.0  (7.7%)    Sue Cook   2.0  (7.7%)    Bob Fearnley   2.2  (8.5%)    Bob Heywood   2.2  (8.5%)    Jason Kanigan   2.0  (7.7%)    Sherry Shaghaghi   2.0  (7.7%)    Alfredo De Lucrezia   1.0  (3.8%)    Hamid Najian   1.0  (3.8%)    Sam Schechter    0.2  (0.8%)  Defeated Marlene Unger   0.2  (0.8%)

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (15.4%), so the last-place candidate (Sam Schechter) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 4 Legend   Barbara Perrault    4.0  (15.4%)    David Perfitt    4.0  (15.4%)    Craig Keating   3.2  (12.3%)    Pam Bookham   2.2  (8.5%)    Sue Cook   2.0  (7.7%)    Bob Fearnley   2.2  (8.5%)    Bob Heywood   2.2  (8.5%)    Jason Kanigan   2.0  (7.7%)    Sherry Shaghaghi   2.0  (7.7%)    Alfredo De Lucrezia   1.0  (3.8%)    Hamid Najian   1.0  (3.8%)    Marlene Unger   0.2  (0.8%)  Defeated

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (15.4%), so the last-place candidate (Marlene Unger) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 5 Legend   Barbara Perrault    4.0  (15.4%)    David Perfitt    4.0  (15.4%)    Craig Keating   3.2  (12.3%)    Pam Bookham   2.4  (9.2%)    Sue Cook   2.0  (7.7%)    Bob Fearnley   2.2  (8.5%)    Bob Heywood   2.2  (8.5%)    Jason Kanigan   2.0  (7.7%)    Sherry Shaghaghi   2.0  (7.7%)    Alfredo De Lucrezia   1.0  (3.8%)  Defeated Hamid Najian   1.0  (3.8%)

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (15.4%), so the last-place candidate (Alfredo De Lucrezia) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 6 Legend   Barbara Perrault    4.0  (15.4%)    David Perfitt    4.0  (15.4%)    Craig Keating   3.2  (12.3%)    Pam Bookham   2.4  (9.2%)    Sue Cook   2.0  (7.7%)    Bob Fearnley   2.2  (8.5%)    Bob Heywood   2.2  (8.5%)    Jason Kanigan   3.0  (11.5%)    Sherry Shaghaghi   2.0  (7.7%)    Hamid Najian   1.0  (3.8%)  Defeated

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (15.4%), so the last-place candidate (Hamid Najian) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 7 Legend   Barbara Perrault    4.0  (15.4%)    David Perfitt    4.0  (15.4%)    Craig Keating   3.2  (12.3%)    Pam Bookham   2.4  (9.2%)    Sue Cook   2.0  (7.7%)  Defeated Bob Fearnley   2.2  (8.5%)    Bob Heywood   2.2  (8.5%)    Jason Kanigan   3.0  (11.5%)    Sherry Shaghaghi   3.0  (11.5%)

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (15.4%), so the last-place candidate (Sue Cook) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 8 Legend   Barbara Perrault    4.0  (15.4%)    David Perfitt    4.0  (15.4%)    Craig Keating   3.2  (12.3%)    Pam Bookham   2.4  (9.2%)    Bob Fearnley   3.2  (12.3%)    Bob Heywood   2.2  (8.5%)    Jason Kanigan   3.0  (11.5%)    Sherry Shaghaghi   4.0  (15.4%)  Elected

Sherry Shaghaghi has enough votes to guarantee victory (15.4%) 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 9 Legend   Barbara Perrault    4.0  (15.4%)    David Perfitt    4.0  (15.4%)    Craig Keating   3.2  (12.3%)    Pam Bookham   2.4  (9.2%)    Bob Fearnley   3.2  (12.3%)    Bob Heywood   2.2  (8.5%)  Defeated Jason Kanigan   3.0  (11.5%)    Sherry Shaghaghi   4.0  (15.4%)

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (15.4%), so the last-place candidate (Bob Heywood) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 10 Legend   Barbara Perrault    4.0  (16.0%)    David Perfitt    4.0  (16.0%)    Craig Keating   3.2  (12.8%)    Pam Bookham   2.4  (9.6%)    Bob Fearnley   4.2  (16.8%)  Elected Jason Kanigan   3.2  (12.8%)    Sherry Shaghaghi   4.0  (16.0%)    None of these   1.0  (4.0%)

Bob Fearnley has enough votes to guarantee victory (15.4%) 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 11 Legend   Barbara Perrault    4.0  (16.1%)    David Perfitt    4.0  (16.1%)    Craig Keating   3.2  (12.9%)    Pam Bookham   2.4  (9.8%)  Defeated Bob Fearnley   4.0  (16.1%)    Jason Kanigan   3.2  (13.0%)    Sherry Shaghaghi   4.0  (16.1%)    None of these   1.1  (4.4%)

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (15.4%), so the last-place candidate (Pam Bookham) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 12 Legend   Barbara Perrault    4.0  (16.8%)  Elected David Perfitt    4.0  (16.8%)  Elected Craig Keating   4.6  (19.3%)  Elected Bob Fearnley   4.0  (16.8%)  Elected Jason Kanigan   3.2  (13.6%)  Elected Sherry Shaghaghi   4.0  (16.8%)  Elected None of these   2.2  (9.0%)

At this point, the number of remaining candidates equals the number of remaining seats, so the remaining candidates are declared elected.
In the end, 91.7% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 69.2% 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 6" 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  70.9%    2nd  10.0%    3rd  5.0%    4th  4.2%    5th  4.8%    7th  0.8%    11th  4.2%