TrySTV.ca Poll: Vancouver - West Side
3 candidates will be elected with 53 ballots cast.
Note:These results are not predicted BC-STV outcomes. On this site, anyone in the world can vote repeatedly. The goal here is to show how the votes are counted.

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Round 1 Legend  
Sean Lymworth (Green
 
 16.0  (30.2%)  Elected
Elizabeth Ball (NPA
 
 11.0  (20.8%)   
Colleen Hardwick Nystedt (NPA
 
 11.0  (20.8%)   
BC Lee (NPA
 
 9.0  (17.0%)   
Heather Deal (Vision Vancouver
 
 4.0  (7.5%)   
Fred Bass* (COPE
 
 1.0  (1.9%)   
Patrick Britten (Independent) 
 
 1.0  (1.9%)   
  pies need GD2 extension

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, or ask a question.

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
Sean Lymworth (Green) has enough votes to guarantee victory (26.4%) 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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TrySTV.ca Poll: Vancouver - West Side
3 candidates will be elected with 53 ballots cast.
Note:These results are not predicted BC-STV outcomes. On this site, anyone in the world can vote repeatedly. The goal here is to show how the votes are counted.

First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Round 2 Legend  
Sean Lymworth (Green
 
 14.0  (26.4%)   
Elizabeth Ball (NPA
 
 11.0  (20.8%)   
Colleen Hardwick Nystedt (NPA
 
 11.0  (20.8%)   
BC Lee (NPA
 
 9.0  (17.0%)   
Heather Deal (Vision Vancouver
 
 4.5  (8.5%)   
Fred Bass* (COPE
 
 1.8  (3.3%)   
Patrick Britten (Independent) 
 
 1.0  (1.9%)   
Heather Harrison (Vision Vancouver
 
 0.8  (1.4%)  Defeated
  pies need GD2 extension

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, or ask a question.

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (26.4%), so the last-place candidate (Heather Harrison (Vision Vancouver)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.














 
 
TrySTV.ca Poll: Vancouver - West Side
3 candidates will be elected with 53 ballots cast.
Note:These results are not predicted BC-STV outcomes. On this site, anyone in the world can vote repeatedly. The goal here is to show how the votes are counted.

First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Round 3 Legend  
Sean Lymworth (Green
 
 14.0  (26.4%)   
Elizabeth Ball (NPA
 
 11.0  (20.8%)   
Colleen Hardwick Nystedt (NPA
 
 11.0  (20.8%)   
BC Lee (NPA
 
 9.0  (17.0%)   
Heather Deal (Vision Vancouver
 
 5.1  (9.7%)   
Fred Bass* (COPE
 
 1.9  (3.5%)   
Patrick Britten (Independent) 
 
 1.0  (1.9%)  Defeated
  pies need GD2 extension

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, or ask a question.

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (26.4%), so the last-place candidate (Patrick Britten (Independent)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.














 
 
TrySTV.ca Poll: Vancouver - West Side
3 candidates will be elected with 53 ballots cast.
Note:These results are not predicted BC-STV outcomes. On this site, anyone in the world can vote repeatedly. The goal here is to show how the votes are counted.

First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Round 4 Legend  
Sean Lymworth (Green
 
 14.0  (26.4%)   
Elizabeth Ball (NPA
 
 11.0  (20.8%)   
Colleen Hardwick Nystedt (NPA
 
 11.0  (20.8%)   
BC Lee (NPA
 
 9.0  (17.0%)   
Heather Deal (Vision Vancouver
 
 5.1  (9.7%)   
Fred Bass* (COPE
 
 2.9  (5.4%)  Defeated
  pies need GD2 extension

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, or ask a question.

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (26.4%), so the last-place candidate (Fred Bass* (COPE)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.














 
 
TrySTV.ca Poll: Vancouver - West Side
3 candidates will be elected with 53 ballots cast.
Note:These results are not predicted BC-STV outcomes. On this site, anyone in the world can vote repeatedly. The goal here is to show how the votes are counted.

First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Round 5 Legend  
Sean Lymworth (Green
 
 14.0  (26.5%)   
Elizabeth Ball (NPA
 
 11.0  (20.8%)   
Colleen Hardwick Nystedt (NPA
 
 11.0  (20.8%)   
BC Lee (NPA
 
 10.0  (18.9%)   
Heather Deal (Vision Vancouver
 
 6.9  (13.0%)  Defeated
None of these 
 
 0.1  (0.2%)   
  pies need GD2 extension

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, or ask a question.

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (26.4%), so the last-place candidate (Heather Deal (Vision Vancouver)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.














 
 
TrySTV.ca Poll: Vancouver - West Side
3 candidates will be elected with 53 ballots cast.
Note:These results are not predicted BC-STV outcomes. On this site, anyone in the world can vote repeatedly. The goal here is to show how the votes are counted.

First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Round 6 Legend  
Sean Lymworth (Green
 
 14.0  (29.9%)   
Elizabeth Ball (NPA
 
 11.1  (23.7%)   
Colleen Hardwick Nystedt (NPA
 
 11.3  (24.0%)   
BC Lee (NPA
 
 10.5  (22.4%)  Defeated
None of these 
 
 6.1  (13.1%)   
  pies need GD2 extension

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, or ask a question.

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (26.4%), so the last-place candidate (BC Lee (NPA)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.














 
 
TrySTV.ca Poll: Vancouver - West Side
3 candidates will be elected with 53 ballots cast.
Note:These results are not predicted BC-STV outcomes. On this site, anyone in the world can vote repeatedly. The goal here is to show how the votes are counted.

First Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Round 7 Legend  
Sean Lymworth (Green
 
 14.0  (29.9%)  Elected
Elizabeth Ball (NPA
 
 19.3  (41.1%)  Elected
Colleen Hardwick Nystedt (NPA
 
 13.6  (29.1%)  Elected
None of these 
 
 6.1  (13.1%)   
  pies need GD2 extension

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, or ask a question.

At this point, the number of remaining candidates equals the number of remaining seats, so the remaining candidates are declared elected.
In the end, 88.4% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 71.7% 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 3" 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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TrySTV.ca Poll: Vancouver - West Side
3 candidates will be elected with 53 ballots cast.
Note:These results are not predicted BC-STV outcomes. On this site, anyone in the world can vote repeatedly. The goal here is to show how the votes are counted.

First Round | Last 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 
 
76.8%   
2nd 
 
19.2%   
5th 
 
0.8%   
6th 
 
0.8%   
9th 
 
2.1%   
10th 
 
0.3%   
  pies need GD