CITY ATTORNEY
Below is the ABIF from the "sf2024-city-attorney" election (CITY ATTORNEY)
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 | DAVID CHIU |
| FPTP | DAVID CHIU |
| Approval | DAVID CHIU |
| STAR | DAVID CHIU |
| Condorcet/Copeland | DAVID CHIU |
IRV/RCV results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/sf2024-city-attorney/IRV#IRV
- IRV/RCV Winner: DAVID CHIU with 271,434 votes (66.2%) in final round
- Runner-up: RICHARD T. WOON with 55,956 votes (13.6%) in final round
- Exhausted ballots in final round: 79,767 (19.5%)
- Number of rounds: 1
- Ballots counted in final round: 330,338 (80.5%)
- Majority of ballots: 205,053 (50.0%)
- Total ballots: 410,105
| Round 1 |
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| Overview: Active ballots: 410,105 (100.0%) Exhausted ballots: 78,579 (19.2%) Overvotes: 1,188 (0.3%) Counted ballots: 330,338 (80.5%) Winning threshold: 165,170 (40.28%) |
| IRV/RCV winner: DAVID CHIU: 271,434 (66.2%)✅ →
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RICHARD T. WOON: 55,956 (13.6%)
(🛑eliminated)
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Write-in: 2,948 (0.7%)
(🛑eliminated)
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Overvotes are ballots where multiple candidates are ranked at the same, highest-ranking position.
FPTP result
sf2024-city-attorney FPTP results permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/sf2024-city-attorney/FPTP#FPTP
- FPTP Winner: DAVID CHIU with 271,434 first-place votes (66.2%)
- Runner-up: RICHARD T. WOON with 55,956 first-place votes (13.6%)
- Margin of victory: 215,478 votes (52.5 percentage points)
- First-place votes
- DAVID CHIU: 271,434 votes (66.2 %)
- RICHARD T. WOON: 55,956 votes (13.6 %)
- Write-in: 2,948 votes (0.7 %)
- Overvotes: 1,188 (0.3 %)
- Blanks: 78,579 (19.2 %)
- Total ballots: 410,105
Approval voting results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/sf2024-city-attorney/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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- Approval Winner: DAVID CHIU
- Approval Results:
- DAVID CHIU (DAVID_CHIU) — 271,922 approvals (66.31% of ballots) (✅ winner)
- RICHARD T. WOON (RICHARD_T_WOON) — 56,297 approvals (13.73% of ballots)
- Write-in (Write_in) — 829 approvals (0.2% of ballots)
- Total: 410,105 ballots (329,048 total approvals)
STAR results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/sf2024-city-attorney/STAR#STAR
- STAR winner: DAVID CHIU
- Finalists: DAVID CHIU vs RICHARD T. WOON
- Runoff result:
- DAVID CHIU: 272,625 votes (66.5%)
- RICHARD T. WOON: 56,413 votes (13.8%)
- No preference: 81067 voters (19.8%)
- Total stars allocated: 765,195
- Total ballots: 410,105
- First round:
- ★#0: DAVID CHIU received 569,719 stars (74.5%) from 297,221 voters (72.5%)
- ★#1: RICHARD T. WOON received 185,717 stars (24.3%) from 129,292 voters (31.5%)
- ★#2: Write-in received 9,759 stars (1.3%) from 5,936 voters (1.4%)
- Finalists:
- ★DAVID CHIU (✅ winner) preferred by 272,625 of 410,105 voters
- ★RICHARD T. WOON preferred by 56,413 of 410,105 voters
- ★No preference between the finalists: 81067
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/sf2024-city-attorney/pairwise#pairwise
- Winner: DAVID CHIU
- Runner-up: RICHARD T. WOON (beats all other candidates except DAVID CHIU)
- Smallest margin: RICHARD T. WOON over Write-in (128,448-4,972; margin: 123,476)
- Largest margin: DAVID CHIU over Write-in (295,873-3,776; margin: 292,097)
- Pairwise ties: none
- Total ballots: 410,105
Win-loss-tie (Condorcet/Copeland) table
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/sf2024-city-attorney/pairwise#wlt
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DAVID CHIU
(2-0-0)
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DAVID CHIU
2 victories ⇣ |
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RICHARD T. WOON
(1-1-0)
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DAVID CHIU:
272,625(66.5%)
RICHARD T. WOON:
56,413(13.8%)
(No preference: 81,067; 19.8%)
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RICHARD T. WOON
⇽ 1 loss / 1 victory† ⇣ |
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Write-in
(0-2-0)
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DAVID CHIU:
295,873(72.1%)
Write-in:
3,776(0.9%)
(No preference: 110,456; 26.9%)
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RICHARD T. WOON:
128,448(31.3%)
Write-in:
4,972(1.2%)
(No preference: 276,685; 67.5%)
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Pairwise tournament (Copeland ordered)
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/sf2024-city-attorney/pairwise#dot
Voting methods: IRV • FPTP • approval • STAR • Pairwise • All methods
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