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Member City Council Dist. 1 - Berkeley (AlamedaCounty; 2022-11-08)

πŸ”— 2022-11-08_AlamedaCounty-Member_City_Council_Dist._1_-_Berkeley     (tags: { AlamedaCounty_CA , from-bolson , actual , 2022 , AlamedaCounty-2022 , 2022-11 , CA })

Below is the ABIF from the "2022-11-08_AlamedaCounty-Member_City_Council_Dist._1_-_Berkeley" election (Member City Council Dist. 1 - Berkeley (AlamedaCounty; 2022-11-08))

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Voting methods: IRV β€’ FPTP β€’ approval β€’ STAR β€’ Pairwise β€’ All methods

Results

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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
IRV/RCV RASHI KESARWANI
FPTP RASHI KESARWANI
Approval ELISA MIKITEN
STAR RASHI KESARWANI
Condorcet/Copeland RASHI KESARWANI
Election results summary showing voting method winners
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IRV/RCV results

2022-11-08_AlamedaCounty-Member_City_Council_Dist._1_-_Berkeley IRV/RCV result permalink:
πŸ”—https://abif.electorama.com/id/2022-11-08_AlamedaCounty-Member_City_Council_Dist._1_-_Berkeley/IRV#IRV

  • IRV/RCV Winner: RASHI KESARWANI with 3,458 votes (51.6%) in final round
  • Runner-up: ELISA MIKITEN with 3,078 votes (46.0%) in final round
  • Exhausted ballots in final round: 161 (2.4%)
  • Number of rounds: 3
  • Ballots counted in final round: 6,536 (97.6%)
  • Majority of ballots: 3,349 (50.0%)
  • Total ballots: 6,697
Round 1 Round 2 Round 3
Overview:
Active ballots: 6,697 (100.0%)

Exhausted ballots: 0 (0.0%)
Overvotes: 31 (0.5%)

Counted ballots: 6,666 (99.5%)
Winning threshold: 3,334 (49.78%)
Overview:
Active ballots: 6,666 (99.5%)

Exhausted ballots: 11 (0.2%)
Overvotes: 1 (0.0%)

Counted ballots: 6,654 (99.4%)
Winning threshold: 3,328 (49.69%)
Overview:
Active ballots: 6,665 (99.5%)

Exhausted ballots: 127 (1.9%)
Overvotes: 2 (0.0%)

Counted ballots: 6,536 (97.6%)
Winning threshold: 3,269 (48.81%)
RASHI KESARWANI: 3,290 (49.1%)
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RASHI KESARWANI: 3,297 (49.2%)
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IRV/RCV winner:
RASHI KESARWANI: 3,458 (51.6%)βœ…
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ELISA MIKITEN: 2,754 (41.1%)
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ELISA MIKITEN: 2,762 (41.2%)
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ELISA MIKITEN: 3,078 (46.0%) (πŸ›‘eliminated)
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TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN: 592 (8.8%)
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TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN: 595 (8.9%) (πŸ›‘eliminated)
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TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN
Write-in: 30 (0.4%) (πŸ›‘eliminated)
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Write-in Write-in

Overvotes are ballots where multiple candidates are ranked at the same, highest-ranking position.

FPTP result

"FPTP" is "First-past-the-post", also known as "plurality" or "choose-one"
2022-11-08_AlamedaCounty-Member_City_Council_Dist._1_-_Berkeley FPTP results permalink:
πŸ”—https://abif.electorama.com/id/2022-11-08_AlamedaCounty-Member_City_Council_Dist._1_-_Berkeley/FPTP#FPTP
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Note β€” Only using first-choices on ranked ballots

  • FPTP Winner: RASHI KESARWANI with 3,290 first-place votes (49.1%)
  • Runner-up: ELISA MIKITEN with 2,754 first-place votes (41.1%)
  • Margin of victory: 536 votes (8.0 percentage points)
  • First-place votes
    • RASHI KESARWANI: 3,290 votes (49.1 %)
    • ELISA MIKITEN: 2,754 votes (41.1 %)
    • TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN: 592 votes (8.8 %)
    • Write-in: 30 votes (0.4 %)
  • Overvotes: 31 (0.5 %)
  • Total ballots: 6,697

Approval voting results

2022-11-08_AlamedaCounty-Member_City_Council_Dist._1_-_Berkeley approval voting results permalink:
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Note β€” Approval counts estimated from 6,697 ranked ballots using favorite_viable_half method
Details

The 'favorite_viable_half' conversion algorithm: find the candidate with the most first preferences, and then determine the minimum number of figurative seats that would need to be open in order for the candidate to exceed the Hare quota with the given first-prefs. We use this to estimate how many candidates are likely to be viable candidates.

Using first-choice vote totals as a rough guide, approximately 3 candidates appear viable: RASHI KESARWANI, ELISA MIKITEN, and TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN. The approximation then assumes each voter approves up to 2 of their top-ranked viable candidates (half of 3, rounded up). All candidates ranked at or above the lowest-ranked of each ballot's top viable candidates receive approval (considering up to 2 viable candidates per ballot).

See transformed ballots

Note: For Approval, these choose_many ballots are inferred from ranked ballots.

Conversion method: favorite_viable_half

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  • Approval Winner: ELISA MIKITEN
  • Approval Results:
    • ELISA MIKITEN — 4,636 approvals (69.23% of ballots) (βœ… winner)
    • RASHI KESARWANI — 4,452 approvals (66.48% of ballots)
    • TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN — 2,282 approvals (34.07% of ballots)
    • Write-in — 39 approvals (0.58% of ballots)
  • Total: 6,697 ballots (11,409 total approvals)

STAR results

2022-11-08_AlamedaCounty-Member_City_Council_Dist._1_-_Berkeley STAR results permalink:
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Note β€” STAR ratings estimated from ranked ballots using Borda scoring method
Details

The ranked ballots have been converted to STAR ratings using Borda scoring: each candidate receives points equal to (number_of_candidates - their_rank). In this election, we have 4 candidates, so the 1st choice gets 3 points, the 2nd choice gets 2 points, etc. These Borda scores are then used as STAR ratings for tabulation by STAR.

  • STAR winner: RASHI KESARWANI
  • Finalists: RASHI KESARWANI vs ELISA MIKITEN
  • Runoff result:
    • RASHI KESARWANI: 3,464 votes (51.7%)
    • ELISA MIKITEN: 3,085 votes (46.1%)
    • No preference: 148 voters (2.2%)
  • Total stars allocated: 32,823
  • Total ballots: 6,697
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(one star above is approximately 656 stars allocated by voters)
  • First round:
    • β˜…#0: RASHI KESARWANI received 12,995 stars (39.6%) from 5,194 voters (77.6%)
    • β˜…#1: ELISA MIKITEN received 12,667 stars (38.6%) from 5,230 voters (78.1%)
    • β˜…#2: TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN received 6,926 stars (21.1%) from 4,037 voters (60.3%)
    • β˜…#3: Write-in received 235 stars (0.7%) from 130 voters (1.9%)
  • Finalists:
    • β˜…RASHI KESARWANI (βœ… winner) preferred by 3,464 of 6,697 voters
    • β˜…ELISA MIKITEN preferred by 3,085 of 6,697 voters
    • β˜…No preference between the finalists: 148

NOTE: Since ratings or stars are not present in the provided ballots, allocated stars are estimated using a Borda-like formula.

Condorcet/Copeland results

2022-11-08_AlamedaCounty-Member_City_Council_Dist._1_-_Berkeley Condorcet/Copeland results permalink:
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  • Winner: RASHI KESARWANI
  • Runner-up: ELISA MIKITEN (beats all other candidates except RASHI KESARWANI)
  • Smallest margin: RASHI KESARWANI over ELISA MIKITEN (3,464-3,085; margin: 379)
  • Largest margin: ELISA MIKITEN over Write-in (5,208-61; margin: 5,147)
  • Pairwise ties: none
  • Total ballots: 6,697

Win-loss-tie (Condorcet/Copeland) table

2022-11-08_AlamedaCounty-Member_City_Council_Dist._1_-_Berkeley w-l-t table permalink:
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Member City Council Dist. 1 - Berkeley (AlamedaCounty; 2022-11-08) pairwise matchups
RASHI KESARWANI
(3-0-0)
RASHI KESARWANI
3 victories ⇣
ELISA MIKITEN
(2-1-0)
RASHI KESARWANI: 3,464(51.7%)
ELISA MIKITEN: 3,085(46.1%)
(No preference: 148; 2.2%)
ELISA MIKITEN
⇽ 1 loss / 2 victories† ⇣
TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN
(1-2-0)
RASHI KESARWANI: 4,308(64.3%)
TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN: 1,675(25.0%)
(No preference: 714; 10.7%)
ELISA MIKITEN: 4,332(64.7%)
TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN: 1,202(17.9%)
(No preference: 1,163; 17.4%)
TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN
⇽ 2 losses / 1 victory† ⇣
Write-in
(0-3-0)
RASHI KESARWANI: 5,174(77.3%)
Write-in: 87(1.3%)
(No preference: 1,436; 21.4%)
ELISA MIKITEN: 5,208(77.8%)
Write-in: 61(0.9%)
(No preference: 1,428; 21.3%)
TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN: 4,005(59.8%)
Write-in: 75(1.1%)
(No preference: 2,617; 39.1%)

Pairwise tournament (Copeland ordered)

2022-11-08_AlamedaCounty-Member_City_Council_Dist._1_-_Berkeley pairwise diagram permalink:
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%3 RASHI KESARWANI RASHI KESARWANI 3-0-0 (3 wins, 0 losses, 0 ties) ELISA MIKITEN ELISA MIKITEN 2-1-0 RASHI KESARWANI->ELISA MIKITEN ← RASHI KESARWANI: 3464 ELISA MIKITEN: 3085 TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN 1-2-0 RASHI KESARWANI->TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN ← RASHI KESARWANI: 4308 TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN: 1675 Write-in Write-in 0-3-0 RASHI KESARWANI->Write-in ← RASHI KESARWANI: 5174 Write-in: 87 ELISA MIKITEN->TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN ← ELISA MIKITEN: 4332 TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN: 1202 ELISA MIKITEN->Write-in ← ELISA MIKITEN: 5208 Write-in: 61 TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN->Write-in ← TAMAR MICHAI FREEMAN: 4005 Write-in: 75

Voting methods: IRV β€’ FPTP β€’ approval β€’ STAR β€’ Pairwise β€’ All methods

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