| TrySTV.ca Poll: Coquitlam City Council |
| 8 candidates will be elected with 58 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
table form,
or ask a question.
The dotted line represents
the number of votes that guarantees victory (12.1%).
In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
Richard Stewart (Coquitlam First) 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.
Next Round
| TrySTV.ca Poll: Coquitlam City Council |
| 8 candidates will be elected with 58 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 (12.1%).
Fin Donnelly 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.
Next Round
| TrySTV.ca Poll: Coquitlam City Council |
| 8 candidates will be elected with 58 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 (12.1%).
A tie was resolved by choosing a candidate at random.
No new candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory, so the last-place candidate (Ralph Baker) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Next Round
| TrySTV.ca Poll: Coquitlam City Council |
| 8 candidates will be elected with 58 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 (12.1%).
A tie was resolved by choosing a candidate at random.
No new candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory, so the last-place candidate (Mary Woo Sims) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Next Round
| TrySTV.ca Poll: Coquitlam City Council |
| 8 candidates will be elected with 58 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 (12.1%).
No new candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory, so the last-place candidate (Arthur Crossman) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Next Round
| TrySTV.ca Poll: Coquitlam City Council |
| 8 candidates will be elected with 58 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 (12.1%).
A tie was resolved by comparing votes in previous rounds.
No new candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory, so the last-place candidate (Michael H. Hejazi) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Next Round
| TrySTV.ca Poll: Coquitlam City Council |
| 8 candidates will be elected with 58 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 (12.1%).
Mae Reid 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.
Next Round
| TrySTV.ca Poll: Coquitlam City Council |
| 8 candidates will be elected with 58 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 (12.1%).
No new candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory, so the last-place candidate (Louella Hollington) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
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Next Round
| TrySTV.ca Poll: Coquitlam City Council |
| 8 candidates will be elected with 58 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 (12.1%).
No new candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory, so the last-place candidate (Ken Woodward (Coquitlam First)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.
Next Round
| TrySTV.ca Poll: Coquitlam City Council |
| 8 candidates will be elected with 58 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 (12.1%).
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.
The
Ballot Depth section shows how much lower rankings contributed to the tally.
| TrySTV.ca Poll: Coquitlam City Council |
| 8 candidates will be elected with 58 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 | 73.6% |
|
| 2nd | 22.6% |
|
| 3rd | 1.9% |
|
| 7th | 1.9% |
|
