Senate_District_L (Alaska; 2022-08-16)
Below is the ABIF from the "2022-08-16_Alaska-Senate_District_L" election (Senate_District_L (Alaska; 2022-08-16))
Voting methods: IRV • FPTP • approval • STAR • Pairwise • All methods
Results
Below are the results of the election represented above using various election methods with abiftool/abiflib. The detected ballot type from the ABIF above is "ranked". Some methods may transform these ballots for analysis; see method notices for details. Resubmit the ABIF with "Transform ballots" turned off to minimize the transformations.
| Method | Winner |
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| IRV/RCV | Merrick, Kelly R. |
| FPTP | Merrick, Kelly R. |
| Approval | Merrick, Kelly R. |
| STAR | Merrick, Kelly R. |
| Condorcet/Copeland | Merrick, Kelly R. |
IRV/RCV results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/2022-08-16_Alaska-Senate_District_L/IRV#IRV
- IRV/RCV Winner: Merrick, Kelly R. with 5,324 votes (44.3%) in final round
- Runner-up: McCarty, Ken with 2,872 votes (23.9%) in final round
- Exhausted ballots in final round: 1,990 (16.6%)
- Number of rounds: 1
- Ballots counted in final round: 10,019 (83.4%)
- Majority of ballots: 6,005 (50.0%)
- Total ballots: 12,009
| Round 1 |
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| Overview: Active ballots: 12,009 (100.0%) Exhausted ballots: 1,989 (16.6%) Overvotes: 1 (0.0%) Counted ballots: 10,019 (83.4%) Winning threshold: 5,010 (41.72%) |
| IRV/RCV winner: Merrick, Kelly R.: 5,324 (44.3%)✅ →
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McCarty, Ken: 2,872 (23.9%)
(🛑eliminated)
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Wright, Joe: 1,132 (9.4%)
(🛑eliminated)
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Trotter, Clayton: 691 (5.8%)
(🛑eliminated)
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Overvotes are ballots where multiple candidates are ranked at the same, highest-ranking position.
FPTP result
2022-08-16_Alaska-Senate_District_L FPTP results permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/2022-08-16_Alaska-Senate_District_L/FPTP#FPTP
- FPTP Winner: Merrick, Kelly R. with 5,324 first-place votes (44.3%)
- Runner-up: McCarty, Ken with 2,872 first-place votes (23.9%)
- Margin of victory: 2,452 votes (20.4 percentage points)
- First-place votes
- Merrick, Kelly R.: 5,324 votes (44.3 %)
- McCarty, Ken: 2,872 votes (23.9 %)
- Wright, Joe: 1,132 votes (9.4 %)
- Trotter, Clayton: 691 votes (5.8 %)
- Overvotes: 1 (0.0 %)
- Blanks: 1,989 (16.6 %)
- Total ballots: 12,009
Approval voting results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/2022-08-16_Alaska-Senate_District_L/approval#approval
See transformed ballots
Note: For Approval, these choose_many ballots are inferred from ranked ballots.
Conversion method: favorite_viable_half
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{is_ranking_to_rating: true}
#------ candlines ------
=[Merrick, Kelly R.]:[Merrick, Kelly R.]
=[McCarty, Ken]:[McCarty, Ken]
=[Wright, Joe]:[Wright, Joe]
=[Trotter, Clayton]:[Trotter, Clayton]
#------- votelines ------
5324:[Merrick, Kelly R.]/1
2872:[McCarty, Ken]/1
- Approval Winner: Merrick, Kelly R.
- Approval Results:
- Merrick, Kelly R. — 5,324 approvals (44.33% of ballots) (✅ winner)
- McCarty, Ken — 2,872 approvals (23.92% of ballots)
- Total: 12,009 ballots (8,196 total approvals)
STAR results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/2022-08-16_Alaska-Senate_District_L/STAR#STAR
- STAR winner: Merrick, Kelly R.
- Finalists: Merrick, Kelly R. vs McCarty, Ken
- Runoff result:
- Merrick, Kelly R.: 5,324 votes (44.3%)
- McCarty, Ken: 2,872 votes (23.9%)
- No preference: 3813 voters (31.8%)
- Total stars allocated: 30,063
- Total ballots: 12,009
- First round:
- ★#0: Merrick, Kelly R. received 15,975 stars (53.1%) from 5,325 voters (44.3%)
- ★#1: McCarty, Ken received 8,619 stars (28.7%) from 2,873 voters (23.9%)
- ★#2: Wright, Joe received 3,396 stars (11.3%) from 1,132 voters (9.4%)
- ★#3: Trotter, Clayton received 2,073 stars (6.9%) from 691 voters (5.8%)
- Finalists:
- ★Merrick, Kelly R. (✅ winner) preferred by 5,324 of 12,009 voters
- ★McCarty, Ken preferred by 2,872 of 12,009 voters
- ★No preference between the finalists: 3813
NOTE: Since ratings or stars are not present in the provided ballots, allocated stars are estimated using a Borda-like formula.
Condorcet/Copeland results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/2022-08-16_Alaska-Senate_District_L/pairwise#pairwise
- Winner: Merrick, Kelly R.
- Runner-up: McCarty, Ken (beats all other candidates except Merrick, Kelly R.)
- Smallest margin: Wright, Joe over Trotter, Clayton (1,132-691; margin: 441)
- Largest margin: Merrick, Kelly R. over Wright, Joe (5,325-1,132; margin: 4,193)
- Pairwise ties: none
- Total ballots: 12,009
Win-loss-tie (Condorcet/Copeland) table
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/2022-08-16_Alaska-Senate_District_L/pairwise#wlt
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Merrick, Kelly R.
(3-0-0)
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Merrick, Kelly R.
3 victories ⇣ |
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McCarty, Ken
(2-1-0)
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Merrick, Kelly R.:
5,324(44.3%)
McCarty, Ken:
2,872(23.9%)
(No preference: 3,813; 31.8%)
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McCarty, Ken
⇽ 1 loss / 2 victories† ⇣ |
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Wright, Joe
(1-2-0)
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Merrick, Kelly R.:
5,325(44.3%)
Wright, Joe:
1,132(9.4%)
(No preference: 5,552; 46.2%)
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McCarty, Ken:
2,873(23.9%)
Wright, Joe:
1,132(9.4%)
(No preference: 8,004; 66.7%)
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Wright, Joe
⇽ 2 losses / 1 victory† ⇣ |
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Trotter, Clayton
(0-3-0)
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Merrick, Kelly R.:
5,325(44.3%)
Trotter, Clayton:
691(5.8%)
(No preference: 5,993; 49.9%)
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McCarty, Ken:
2,873(23.9%)
Trotter, Clayton:
691(5.8%)
(No preference: 8,445; 70.3%)
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Wright, Joe:
1,132(9.4%)
Trotter, Clayton:
691(5.8%)
(No preference: 10,186; 84.8%)
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Pairwise tournament (Copeland ordered)
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/2022-08-16_Alaska-Senate_District_L/pairwise#dot
Voting methods: IRV • FPTP • approval • STAR • Pairwise • All methods
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