OpaVote Demonstration Election Results

This page shows preliminary results for this election. You can also recount the ballots for free using all of the counting methods supported by OpaVote or download the ballots to recount them on your own.

President

Counting ballots using Instant Runoff Voting. There are 5 candidates competing for 1 seat. The number of ballots is 17624 and there were 17622 valid ballots and 2 empty ballots.

Method Options:

• Candidate Elimination -- Zero
• Weak Tie Breaking -- Backward

The bar charts below show the vote counts for each candidate in each round. Place the mouse over a bar to see the number of votes.

• Yellow — Votes carried over from the previous round.
• Green — Votes received in this round.
• Red — Votes transferred away in this round.

A candidate's votes in a round is the sum of the yellow and green bars. Since the green and red bars represent votes being transferred, the sum of the green and red bars is the same.

The exhausted bar represents votes where the voter did not indicate a next preference and thus there were no candidates to transfer the vote to.

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Round 1

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Count of first choices.

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Round 2

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Count after eliminating James Madison and transferring votes.

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Round 3

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Count after eliminating James Monroe and transferring votes.

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Round 4

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Count after eliminating Thomas Jefferson and transferring votes. Candidate George Washington is elected.

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Winners

Winner is George Washington.