TrySTV.ca Poll: Northwest BC Legislative Assembly - 2009 General Election
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| 3 candidates will be elected with 660 ballots cast. |
| Note:These results are not predicted BC-STV outcomes. On this site, anyone anywhere can vote many times. The goal here is to show how the votes are counted. |
Table form |
Chart form: First Round |
Next Round | Final Round | Ballot Depth |
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Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the
How it works page, view the
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The dotted line represents
the number of votes that guarantees victory (25.2%).
In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory, so the last-place candidate (Lisa Girbav (Green)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
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TrySTV.ca Poll: Northwest BC Legislative Assembly - 2009 General Election
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| 3 candidates will be elected with 660 ballots cast. |
| Note:These results are not predicted BC-STV outcomes. On this site, anyone anywhere can vote many times. The goal here is to show how the votes are counted. |
Table form |
Chart form: First Round |
Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth |
How it works |
Main Page
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 (25.2%).
No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory, so the last-place candidate (Roger Benham (Green)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
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TrySTV.ca Poll: Northwest BC Legislative Assembly - 2009 General Election
|
| 3 candidates will be elected with 660 ballots cast. |
| Note:These results are not predicted BC-STV outcomes. On this site, anyone anywhere can vote many times. The goal here is to show how the votes are counted. |
Table form |
Chart form: First Round |
Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth |
How it works |
Main Page
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 (25.2%).
No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory, so the last-place candidate (Mike Brousseau (Conservative)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
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TrySTV.ca Poll: Northwest BC Legislative Assembly - 2009 General Election
|
| 3 candidates will be elected with 660 ballots cast. |
| Note:These results are not predicted BC-STV outcomes. On this site, anyone anywhere can vote many times. The goal here is to show how the votes are counted. |
Table form |
Chart form: First Round |
Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth |
How it works |
Main Page
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 (25.2%).
No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory, so the last-place candidate (Doug Donaldson (NDP)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
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TrySTV.ca Poll: Northwest BC Legislative Assembly - 2009 General Election
|
| 3 candidates will be elected with 660 ballots cast. |
| Note:These results are not predicted BC-STV outcomes. On this site, anyone anywhere can vote many times. The goal here is to show how the votes are counted. |
Table form |
Chart form: First Round |
Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth |
How it works |
Main Page
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 (25.2%).
Robin Austin (NDP) has enough votes to guarantee victory 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, if possible. This is actually done by counting a fraction of the ballots most recently counted for the winning candidate.
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TrySTV.ca Poll: Northwest BC Legislative Assembly - 2009 General Election
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| 3 candidates will be elected with 660 ballots cast. |
| Note:These results are not predicted BC-STV outcomes. On this site, anyone anywhere can vote many times. The goal here is to show how the votes are counted. |
Table form |
Chart form: First Round |
Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth |
How it works |
Main Page
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 (25.2%).
No new candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory, so the last-place candidate (Scott Groves (Liberal)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
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TrySTV.ca Poll: Northwest BC Legislative Assembly - 2009 General Election
|
| 3 candidates will be elected with 660 ballots cast. |
| Note:These results are not predicted BC-STV outcomes. On this site, anyone anywhere can vote many times. The goal here is to show how the votes are counted. |
Table form |
Chart form: First Round |
Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth |
How it works |
Main Page
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 (25.2%).
No new candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory, so the last-place candidate (Anita Norman (Green)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Next Round
TrySTV.ca Poll: Northwest BC Legislative Assembly - 2009 General Election
|
| 3 candidates will be elected with 660 ballots cast. |
| Note:These results are not predicted BC-STV outcomes. On this site, anyone anywhere can vote many times. The goal here is to show how the votes are counted. |
Table form |
Chart form: First Round |
Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth |
How it works |
Main Page
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 (25.2%).
Gary Coons (NDP) has enough votes to guarantee victory and is declared a winner.
In the end, 76.5% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 55.5%
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.
The
Ballot Depth section shows how much lower rankings contributed to the tally.
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TrySTV.ca Poll: Northwest BC Legislative Assembly - 2009 General Election
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| 3 candidates will be elected with 660 ballots cast. |
| Note:These results are not predicted BC-STV outcomes. On this site, anyone anywhere can vote many times. The goal here is to show how the votes are counted. |
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 | 71.1% |
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| 2nd | 18.4% |
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| 3rd | 3.6% |
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| 4th | 3.6% |
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| 5th | 2.6% |
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| 6th | 0.6% |
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