St. Louis 2025 Alderman, Ward 11
Below is the ABIF from the "stl-2025-alderman-ward11" election (St. Louis 2025 Alderman, Ward 11)
Voting methods: FPTP • approval • IRV • 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 "choose_many". 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 | Laura M. Keys |
| Approval | Laura M. Keys |
| IRV/RCV | Laura M. Keys |
| STAR | Laura M. Keys |
| Condorcet/Copeland | Laura M. Keys |
FPTP result
stl-2025-alderman-ward11 FPTP results permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-alderman-ward11/FPTP#FPTP
- FPTP Winner: Laura M. Keys with 634 first-place votes (55.0%)
- Runner-up: Rebecca Mccloud with 310 first-place votes (26.9%)
- Margin of victory: 324 votes (28.1 percentage points)
- First-place votes
- Laura M. Keys: 634 votes (55.0 %)
- Rebecca Mccloud: 310 votes (26.9 %)
- Melinda Long: 76 votes (6.6 %)
- Overvotes: 132 (11.5 %)
- Total ballots: 1,152
Approval voting results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-alderman-ward11/approval#approval
- Approval Winner: Laura M. Keys
- Approval Results:
- Laura M. Keys (Laura_M_Keys) — 744 approvals (64.58% of ballots) (✅ winner)
- Rebecca Mccloud (Rebecca_Mccloud) — 422 approvals (36.63% of ballots)
- Melinda Long (Melinda_Long) — 140 approvals (12.15% of ballots)
- Total: 1,152 ballots (1,306 total approvals)
IRV/RCV results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-alderman-ward11/IRV#IRV
See transformed ballots
Note: For IRV/RCV, these ranked ballots are inferred from choose_many ballots.
Conversion method: least_approval_first
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{jurisdiction: "St. Louis, Missouri"}
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#------ candlines ------
=Laura_M_Keys:[Laura M. Keys]
=Rebecca_Mccloud:[Rebecca Mccloud]
=Melinda_Long:[Melinda Long]
#------- votelines ------
634:Laura_M_Keys
310:Rebecca_Mccloud
76:Melinda_Long
68:Rebecca_Mccloud>Laura_M_Keys
22:Melinda_Long>Rebecca_Mccloud>Laura_M_Keys
22:Melinda_Long>Rebecca_Mccloud
20:Melinda_Long>Laura_M_Keys
- IRV/RCV Winner: Laura M. Keys with 634 votes (55.0%) in final round
- Runner-up: Rebecca Mccloud with 378 votes (32.8%) in final round
- Exhausted ballots in final round: 0 (0.0%)
- Number of rounds: 1
- Ballots counted in final round: 1,152 (100.0%)
- Majority of ballots: 577 (50.1%)
- Total ballots: 1,152
| Round 1 |
|---|
| Overview: Active ballots: 1,152 (100.0%) Exhausted ballots: 0 (0.0%) Counted ballots: 1,152 (100.0%) |
| IRV/RCV winner: Laura M. Keys: 634 (55.0%)✅ →
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Rebecca Mccloud: 378 (32.8%)
(🛑eliminated)
→
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Melinda Long: 140 (12.2%)
(🛑eliminated)
→
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STAR results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-alderman-ward11/STAR#STAR
- STAR winner: Laura M. Keys
- Finalists: Laura M. Keys vs Rebecca Mccloud
- Runoff result:
- Laura M. Keys: 654 votes (56.8%)
- Rebecca Mccloud: 332 votes (28.8%)
- No preference: 166 voters (14.4%)
- Total stars allocated: 1,306
- Total ballots: 1,152
- First round:
- ★#0: Laura M. Keys received 744 stars (57.0%) from 744 voters (64.6%)
- ★#1: Rebecca Mccloud received 422 stars (32.3%) from 422 voters (36.6%)
- ★#2: Melinda Long received 140 stars (10.7%) from 140 voters (12.2%)
- Finalists:
- ★Laura M. Keys (✅ winner) preferred by 654 of 1,152 voters
- ★Rebecca Mccloud preferred by 332 of 1,152 voters
- ★No preference between the finalists: 166
Condorcet/Copeland results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-alderman-ward11/pairwise#pairwise
See transformed ballots
Note: For Condorcet/Copeland, these ranked ballots are inferred from choose_many ballots.
Conversion method: least_approval_first
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{jurisdiction: "St. Louis, Missouri"}
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{contestid: "4"}
#------ candlines ------
=Laura_M_Keys:[Laura M. Keys]
=Rebecca_Mccloud:[Rebecca Mccloud]
=Melinda_Long:[Melinda Long]
#------- votelines ------
634:Laura_M_Keys
310:Rebecca_Mccloud
76:Melinda_Long
68:Rebecca_Mccloud>Laura_M_Keys
22:Melinda_Long>Rebecca_Mccloud>Laura_M_Keys
22:Melinda_Long>Rebecca_Mccloud
20:Melinda_Long>Laura_M_Keys
- Winner: Laura M. Keys
- Runner-up: Rebecca Mccloud (beats all other candidates except Laura M. Keys)
- Smallest margin: Rebecca Mccloud over Melinda Long (378-140; margin: 238)
- Largest margin: Laura M. Keys over Melinda Long (702-140; margin: 562)
- Pairwise ties: none
- Total ballots: 1,152
Win-loss-tie (Condorcet/Copeland) table
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-alderman-ward11/pairwise#wlt
|
Laura M. Keys
(2-0-0)
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Laura M. Keys
2 victories ⇣ |
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|---|---|---|
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Rebecca Mccloud
(1-1-0)
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Laura M. Keys:
654(56.8%)
Rebecca Mccloud:
422(36.6%)
(No preference: 76; 6.6%)
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Rebecca Mccloud
⇽ 1 loss / 1 victory† ⇣ |
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Melinda Long
(0-2-0)
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Laura M. Keys:
702(60.9%)
Melinda Long:
140(12.2%)
(No preference: 310; 26.9%)
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Rebecca Mccloud:
378(32.8%)
Melinda Long:
140(12.2%)
(No preference: 634; 55.0%)
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Pairwise tournament (Copeland ordered)
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-alderman-ward11/pairwise#dot
Voting methods: FPTP • approval • IRV • STAR • Pairwise • All methods
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