TrySTV.ca Poll: Northeast BC Legislative Assembly - 2009 General Election
2 candidates will be elected with 1,855 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 | How it works | Main Page

Round 1    
------------------------------------------------ 33.4%
Blair Lekstrom (Liberal)  699.0  (37.7%) 
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF :FFFFFFF
Jackie Allen (NDP)  343.0  (18.5%) 
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII _____________________ :
Liz Logan (Green)  324.0  (17.5%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC _______________________ :
Pat Pimm (Liberal)  254.0  (13.7%) 
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ____________________________ :
Pat Shaw (NDP)  183.0  (9.9%) 
HHHHHHHHHHHHHH __________________________________ :
Arthur A. Hadland (Independent)  17.0  (0.9%) 
B _______________________________________________ :
Grant Fraser (Green)  15.0  (0.8%) 
DD ______________________________________________ :
Suzanne Arntson (Refed)  14.0  (0.8%) 
A _______________________________________________ :
Donna Young (Independent)  6.0  (0.3%) 
________________________________________________ :
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Blair Lekstrom (Liberal) Elected
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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 (33.4%).

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
Blair Lekstrom (Liberal) 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.

New colors:
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None of these

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TrySTV.ca Poll: Northeast BC Legislative Assembly - 2009 General Election
2 candidates will be elected with 1,855 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

Round 2    
------------------------------------------------- 33.4%
Blair Lekstrom (Liberal)  619.0  (33.4%) 
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF :
Jackie Allen (NDP)  345.2  (18.6%) 
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ______________________ :
Liz Logan (Green)  328.5  (17.7%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC _______________________ :
Pat Pimm (Liberal)  321.1  (17.3%) 
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ________________________ :
Pat Shaw (NDP)  184.3  (9.9%) 
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH __________________________________ :
Arthur A. Hadland (Independent)  17.0  (0.9%) 
BB _______________________________________________ :
Grant Fraser (Green)  15.3  (0.8%) 
D ________________________________________________ :
Suzanne Arntson (Refed)  14.0  (0.8%) 
A ________________________________________________ :
Donna Young (Independent)  6.1  (0.3%) 
G ________________________________________________ :
None of these  4.6  (0.2%) 
_________________________________________________
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Donna Young (Independent) Defeated
B
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 (33.4%).

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

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TrySTV.ca Poll: Northeast BC Legislative Assembly - 2009 General Election
2 candidates will be elected with 1,855 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

Round 3    
------------------------------------------------- 33.4%
Blair Lekstrom (Liberal)  619.0  (33.4%) 
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF :
Jackie Allen (NDP)  345.2  (18.6%) 
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII _____________________ :
Liz Logan (Green)  328.5  (17.7%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC _______________________ :
Pat Pimm (Liberal)  321.2  (17.3%) 
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE _______________________ :
Pat Shaw (NDP)  184.3  (9.9%) 
HHHHHHHHHHHHHH ___________________________________ :
Arthur A. Hadland (Independent)  22.0  (1.2%) 
B ________________________________________________ :
Grant Fraser (Green)  15.3  (0.8%) 
D ________________________________________________ :
Suzanne Arntson (Refed)  14.0  (0.8%) 
A ________________________________________________ :
None of these  5.6  (0.3%) 
_________________________________________________
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Suzanne Arntson (Refed) Defeated
E
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 (33.4%).

No new candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory, so the last-place candidate (Suzanne Arntson (Refed)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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TrySTV.ca Poll: Northeast BC Legislative Assembly - 2009 General Election
2 candidates will be elected with 1,855 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

Round 4    
------------------------------------------------- 33.4%
Blair Lekstrom (Liberal)  619.0  (33.4%) 
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF :
Jackie Allen (NDP)  346.2  (18.7%) 
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ______________________ :
Liz Logan (Green)  330.5  (17.8%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC _______________________ :
Pat Pimm (Liberal)  324.2  (17.5%) 
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE _______________________ :
Pat Shaw (NDP)  184.3  (9.9%) 
HHHHHHHHHHHHHH ___________________________________ :
Arthur A. Hadland (Independent)  27.0  (1.5%) 
BBB ______________________________________________ :
Grant Fraser (Green)  17.3  (0.9%) 
D ________________________________________________ :
None of these  6.6  (0.4%) 
_________________________________________________
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Grant Fraser (Green) Defeated
C
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 (33.4%).

No new candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory, so the last-place candidate (Grant Fraser (Green)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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TrySTV.ca Poll: Northeast BC Legislative Assembly - 2009 General Election
2 candidates will be elected with 1,855 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

Round 5    
------------------------------------------------- 33.4%
Blair Lekstrom (Liberal)  619.0  (33.4%) 
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF :
Jackie Allen (NDP)  346.2  (18.7%) 
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ______________________ :
Liz Logan (Green)  347.5  (18.7%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ______________________ :
Pat Pimm (Liberal)  324.3  (17.5%) 
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ________________________ :
Pat Shaw (NDP)  184.3  (9.9%) 
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH __________________________________ :
Arthur A. Hadland (Independent)  27.2  (1.5%) 
BB _______________________________________________ :
None of these  6.6  (0.4%) 
_________________________________________________
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Arthur A. Hadland (Independent) Defeated
C E
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 (33.4%).

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

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TrySTV.ca Poll: Northeast BC Legislative Assembly - 2009 General Election
2 candidates will be elected with 1,855 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

Round 6    
------------------------------------------------- 33.4%
Blair Lekstrom (Liberal)  619.0  (33.4%) 
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF :
Jackie Allen (NDP)  347.2  (18.7%) 
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII _____________________ :
Liz Logan (Green)  356.5  (19.2%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC _____________________ :
Pat Pimm (Liberal)  336.5  (18.1%) 
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ______________________ :
Pat Shaw (NDP)  185.3  (10.0%) 
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH __________________________________ :
None of these  10.6  (0.6%) 
_________________________________________________
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Pat Shaw (NDP) Defeated
C IIIIIIIIIIII J
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 (33.4%).

No new candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory, so the last-place candidate (Pat Shaw (NDP)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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TrySTV.ca Poll: Northeast BC Legislative Assembly - 2009 General Election
2 candidates will be elected with 1,855 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

Round 7    
------------------------------------------------ 33.4%
Blair Lekstrom (Liberal)  619.0  (33.4%) 
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF :F
Jackie Allen (NDP)  501.4  (27.0%) 
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII _________ :
Liz Logan (Green)  367.5  (19.8%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ___________________ :
Pat Pimm (Liberal)  344.4  (18.6%) 
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE _____________________ :
None of these  22.7  (1.2%) 
JJ ______________________________________________
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Pat Pimm (Liberal) Defeated
CCCCCCCCC IIII JJJJJJJJJJJJJ
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 (33.4%).

No new candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory, so the last-place candidate (Pat Pimm (Liberal)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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TrySTV.ca Poll: Northeast BC Legislative Assembly - 2009 General Election
2 candidates will be elected with 1,855 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

Round 8    
------------------------------------------------ 33.4%
Blair Lekstrom (Liberal)  619.0  (33.4%) 
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF :F
Jackie Allen (NDP)  555.6  (30.0%) 
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ____ :
Liz Logan (Green)  489.7  (26.4%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC _________ :
None of these  190.7  (10.3%) 
JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ _________________________________
   
Results  
Liz Logan (Green)Defeated 
Blair Lekstrom (Liberal)Elected 
Jackie Allen (NDP)Elected 
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 (33.4%).

Jackie Allen (NDP) has enough votes to guarantee victory and is declared a winner.
In the end, 63.3% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 56.2% 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.


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TrySTV.ca Poll: Northeast BC Legislative Assembly - 2009 General Election
2 candidates will be elected with 1,855 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 81.9% 
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2nd 13.6% 
XXXXXXXXX
3rd 3.0% 
XX
4th 1.2% 
X
5th 0.1% 
6th 0.2% 
X