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UNITED STATES SENATOR

🔗 sf2024-united-states-senator     (tags: { 2024 , sf2024 , actual , CA , USA , government , federal , senate })

Below is the ABIF from the "sf2024-united-states-senator" election (UNITED STATES SENATOR)

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

Results

🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/sf2024-united-states-senator

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 "choose_one". 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
FPTP ADAM B. SCHIFF
Approval ADAM B. SCHIFF
IRV/RCV ADAM B. SCHIFF
STAR ADAM B. SCHIFF
Condorcet/Copeland ADAM B. SCHIFF
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FPTP result

"FPTP" is "First-past-the-post", also known as "plurality" or "choose-one"
sf2024-united-states-senator FPTP results permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/sf2024-united-states-senator/FPTP#FPTP

  • FPTP Winner: ADAM B. SCHIFF with 310,803 first-place votes (75.4%)
  • Runner-up: STEVE GARVEY with 66,382 first-place votes (16.1%)
  • Margin of victory: 244,421 votes (59.3 percentage points)
  • First-place votes
    • ADAM B. SCHIFF: 310,803 votes (75.4 %)
    • STEVE GARVEY: 66,382 votes (16.1 %)
  • Overvotes: 377 (0.1 %)
  • Blanks: 34,559 (8.4 %)
  • Total ballots: 412,121

Approval voting results

sf2024-united-states-senator approval voting results permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/sf2024-united-states-senator/approval#approval
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Note — Approvals inferred from choose_one ballots
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Approval results are derived by treating each voter's single top choice as their only approval. Lower preferences are not available on choose_one ballots.

  • Approval Winner: ADAM B. SCHIFF
  • Approval Results:
    • ADAM B. SCHIFF (ADAM_B_SCHIFF) — 311,180 approvals (75.51% of ballots) (✅ winner)
    • STEVE GARVEY (STEVE_GARVEY) — 66,759 approvals (16.2% of ballots)
  • Total: 412,121 ballots (377,939 total approvals)

IRV/RCV results

sf2024-united-states-senator IRV/RCV result permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/sf2024-united-states-senator/IRV#IRV
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Note — IRV/RCV applied to choose_one ballots (no transfers)
Details

These ballots indicate only a single top choice per voter. IRV/RCV on choose_one ballots cannot transfer votes or use lower preferences, so the result is equivalent to plurality on first choices.

  • IRV/RCV Winner: ADAM B. SCHIFF with 310,803 votes (75.4%) in final round
  • Runner-up: STEVE GARVEY with 66,382 votes (16.1%) in final round
  • Exhausted ballots in final round: 34,936 (8.5%)
  • Number of rounds: 1
  • Ballots counted in final round: 377,185 (91.5%)
  • Majority of ballots: 206,061 (50.0%)
  • Total ballots: 412,121
Round 1
Overview:
Active ballots: 412,121 (100.0%)

Exhausted ballots: 34,559 (8.4%)
Overvotes: 377 (0.1%)

Counted ballots: 377,185 (91.5%)
Winning threshold: 188,593 (45.76%)
IRV/RCV winner:
ADAM B. SCHIFF: 310,803 (75.4%)✅
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STEVE GARVEY: 66,382 (16.1%) (🛑eliminated)
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Overvotes are ballots where multiple candidates are ranked at the same, highest-ranking position.

STAR results

sf2024-united-states-senator STAR results permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/sf2024-united-states-senator/STAR#STAR
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Note — STAR interpretation from choose_one ballots
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Choose_one ballots provide only each voter's top choice and no ratings. STAR results shown here are computed without true ratings and should be interpreted cautiously.

  • STAR winner: ADAM B. SCHIFF
  • Finalists: ADAM B. SCHIFF vs STEVE GARVEY
  • Runoff result:
    • ADAM B. SCHIFF: 310,803 votes (75.4%)
    • STEVE GARVEY: 66,382 votes (16.1%)
    • No preference: 34936 voters (8.5%)
  • Total stars allocated: 377,939
  • Total ballots: 412,121
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  • First round:
    • ★#0: ADAM B. SCHIFF received 311,180 stars (82.3%) from 311,180 voters (75.5%)
    • ★#1: STEVE GARVEY received 66,759 stars (17.7%) from 66,759 voters (16.2%)
  • Finalists:
    • ★ADAM B. SCHIFF (✅ winner) preferred by 310,803 of 412,121 voters
    • ★STEVE GARVEY preferred by 66,382 of 412,121 voters
    • ★No preference between the finalists: 34936

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

Condorcet/Copeland results

sf2024-united-states-senator Condorcet/Copeland results permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/sf2024-united-states-senator/pairwise#pairwise
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Note — Pairwise comparisons derived from top-choice-only ballots
Details

Pairwise/Condorcet comparisons use only each voter's top choice from choose_one ballots. No lower preferences are available, so many matchups will show a large 'No preference' count.

  • Winner: ADAM B. SCHIFF
  • Runner-up: STEVE GARVEY (beats all other candidates except ADAM B. SCHIFF)
  • Smallest margin: ADAM B. SCHIFF over STEVE GARVEY (310,803-66,382; margin: 244,421)
  • Largest margin: ADAM B. SCHIFF over STEVE GARVEY (310,803-66,382; margin: 244,421)
  • Pairwise ties: none
  • Total ballots: 412,121

Win-loss-tie (Condorcet/Copeland) table

sf2024-united-states-senator w-l-t table permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/sf2024-united-states-senator/pairwise#wlt
UNITED STATES SENATOR pairwise matchups
ADAM B. SCHIFF
(1-0-0)
ADAM B. SCHIFF
1 victory ⇣
STEVE GARVEY
(0-1-0)
ADAM B. SCHIFF: 310,803(75.4%)
STEVE GARVEY: 66,382(16.1%)
(No preference: 34,936; 8.5%)

Pairwise tournament (Copeland ordered)

sf2024-united-states-senator pairwise diagram permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/sf2024-united-states-senator/pairwise#dot

%3 ADAM_B_SCHIFF ADAM_B_SCHIFF 1-0-0 (1 wins, 0 losses, 0 ties) STEVE_GARVEY STEVE_GARVEY 0-1-0 ADAM_B_SCHIFF->STEVE_GARVEY ← ADAM_B_SCHIFF: 310803 STEVE_GARVEY: 66382

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

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