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NYC 2025 Primary DEM Council Member District 51

🔗 nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d51     (tags: { nyc , 2025 , actual , NY , NYC-2025 , NYC_NY , primary_election , RCV })

Below is the ABIF from the "nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d51" election (NYC 2025 Primary DEM Council Member District 51)

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Voting methods: IRV • FPTP • approval • STAR • Pairwise • All methods

Results

🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d51

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 Frank Morano
FPTP Frank Morano
Approval Frank Morano
STAR Frank Morano
Condorcet/Copeland Frank Morano
Election results summary showing voting method winners
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IRV/RCV results

nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d51 IRV/RCV result permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d51/IRV#IRV

  • IRV/RCV Winner: Frank Morano with 3,314 votes (81.8%) in final round
  • Runner-up: Griffin T. Fossella with 384 votes (9.5%) in final round
  • Exhausted ballots in final round: 0 (0.0%)
  • Number of rounds: 1
  • Ballots counted in final round: 4,052 (100.0%)
  • Majority of ballots: 2,027 (50.0%)
  • Total ballots: 4,052
Round 1
Overview:
Active ballots: 4,052 (100.0%)

Exhausted ballots: 0 (0.0%)
Counted ballots: 4,052 (100.0%)
IRV/RCV winner:
Frank Morano: 3,314 (81.8%)✅
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Griffin T. Fossella: 384 (9.5%) (🛑eliminated)
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John K. Buthorn: 330 (8.1%) (🛑eliminated)
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Candidate Write-in: 24 (0.6%) (🛑eliminated)
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FPTP result

"FPTP" is "First-past-the-post", also known as "plurality" or "choose-one"
nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d51 FPTP results permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d51/FPTP#FPTP
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Note — Only using first-choices on ranked ballots

  • FPTP Winner: Frank Morano with 3,314 first-place votes (81.8%)
  • Runner-up: Griffin T. Fossella with 384 first-place votes (9.5%)
  • Margin of victory: 2,930 votes (72.3 percentage points)
  • First-place votes
    • Frank Morano: 3,314 votes (81.8 %)
    • Griffin T. Fossella: 384 votes (9.5 %)
    • John K. Buthorn: 330 votes (8.1 %)
    • Candidate Write-in: 24 votes (0.6 %)
  • Total ballots: 4,052

Approval voting results

nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d51 approval voting results permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d51/approval#approval
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Note — Approval counts estimated from 4,052 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 2 candidates appear viable: Frank Morano and Griffin T. Fossella. The approximation then assumes each voter approves up to 1 of their top-ranked viable candidates (half of 2). All candidates ranked at or above the lowest-ranked of each ballot's top viable candidates receive approval (considering up to 1 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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{description: "Ranked-choice voting data for NYC 2025 Democratic Primary DEM Council Member District 51"}
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#------ candlines ------
=JKB254153:[John K. Buthorn]
=FM254685:[Frank Morano]
=GTF258671:[Griffin T. Fossella]
=CANDWrite-in:[Candidate Write-in]
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  • Approval Winner: Frank Morano
  • Approval Results:
    • Frank Morano (FM254685) — 3,443 approvals (84.97% of ballots) (✅ winner)
    • Griffin T. Fossella (GTF258671) — 461 approvals (11.38% of ballots)
    • John K. Buthorn (JKB254153) — 197 approvals (4.86% of ballots)
    • Candidate Write-in (CANDWrite-in) — 15 approvals (0.37% of ballots)
  • Total: 4,052 ballots (4,116 total approvals)

STAR results

nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d51 STAR results permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d51/STAR#STAR
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Note — 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: Frank Morano
  • Finalists: Frank Morano vs Griffin T. Fossella
  • Runoff result:
    • Frank Morano: 3,443 votes (85.0%)
    • Griffin T. Fossella: 461 votes (11.4%)
    • No preference: 148 voters (3.7%)
  • Total stars allocated: 16,815
  • Total ballots: 4,052
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(one star above is approximately 336 stars allocated by voters)
  • First round:
    • ★#0: Frank Morano received 10,590 stars (63.0%) from 3,683 voters (90.9%)
    • ★#1: Griffin T. Fossella received 3,431 stars (20.4%) from 1,708 voters (42.2%)
    • ★#2: John K. Buthorn received 2,647 stars (15.7%) from 1,504 voters (37.1%)
    • ★#3: Candidate Write-in received 147 stars (0.9%) from 75 voters (1.9%)
  • Finalists:
    • ★Frank Morano (✅ winner) preferred by 3,443 of 4,052 voters
    • ★Griffin T. Fossella preferred by 461 of 4,052 voters
    • ★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

nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d51 Condorcet/Copeland results permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d51/pairwise#pairwise
  • Winner: Frank Morano
  • Runner-up: Griffin T. Fossella (beats all other candidates except Frank Morano)
  • Smallest margin: Griffin T. Fossella over John K. Buthorn (1,278-764; margin: 514)
  • Largest margin: Frank Morano over Candidate Write-in (3,673-34; margin: 3,639)
  • Pairwise ties: none
  • Total ballots: 4,052

Win-loss-tie (Condorcet/Copeland) table

nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d51 w-l-t table permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d51/pairwise#wlt
NYC 2025 Primary DEM Council Member District 51 pairwise matchups
Frank Morano
(3-0-0)
Frank Morano
3 victories ⇣
Griffin T. Fossella
(2-1-0)
Frank Morano: 3,443(85.0%)
Griffin T. Fossella: 461(11.4%)
(No preference: 148; 3.7%)
Griffin T. Fossella
⇽ 1 loss / 2 victories† ⇣
John K. Buthorn
(1-2-0)
Frank Morano: 3,474(85.7%)
John K. Buthorn: 392(9.7%)
(No preference: 186; 4.6%)
Griffin T. Fossella: 1,278(31.5%)
John K. Buthorn: 764(18.9%)
(No preference: 2,010; 49.6%)
John K. Buthorn
⇽ 2 losses / 1 victory† ⇣
Candidate Write-in
(0-3-0)
Frank Morano: 3,673(90.6%)
Candidate Write-in: 34(0.8%)
(No preference: 345; 8.5%)
Griffin T. Fossella: 1,692(41.8%)
Candidate Write-in: 57(1.4%)
(No preference: 2,303; 56.8%)
John K. Buthorn: 1,491(36.8%)
Candidate Write-in: 56(1.4%)
(No preference: 2,505; 61.8%)

Pairwise tournament (Copeland ordered)

nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d51 pairwise diagram permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/nyc2025-primary-dem-council-member-d51/pairwise#dot

%3 FM254685 FM254685 3-0-0 (3 wins, 0 losses, 0 ties) GTF258671 GTF258671 2-1-0 FM254685->GTF258671 ← FM254685: 3443 GTF258671: 461 JKB254153 JKB254153 1-2-0 FM254685->JKB254153 ← FM254685: 3474 JKB254153: 392 CANDWrite-in CANDWrite-in 0-3-0 FM254685->CANDWrite-in ← FM254685: 3673 CANDWrite-in: 34 GTF258671->JKB254153 ← GTF258671: 1278 JKB254153: 764 GTF258671->CANDWrite-in ← GTF258671: 1692 CANDWrite-in: 57 JKB254153->CANDWrite-in ← JKB254153: 1491 CANDWrite-in: 56

Voting methods: IRV • FPTP • approval • STAR • Pairwise • All methods

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