St. Louis 2025 Alderman, Ward 3
Below is the ABIF from the "stl-2025-alderman-ward3" election (St. Louis 2025 Alderman, Ward 3)
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 | Shane Cohn |
| Approval | Shane Cohn |
| IRV/RCV | Shane Cohn |
| STAR | Shane Cohn |
| Condorcet/Copeland | Shane Cohn |
FPTP result
stl-2025-alderman-ward3 FPTP results permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-alderman-ward3/FPTP#FPTP
- FPTP Winner: Shane Cohn with 663 first-place votes (40.8%)
- Runner-up: Dallas Adams with 388 first-place votes (23.9%)
- Margin of victory: 275 votes (16.9 percentage points)
- First-place votes
- Shane Cohn: 663 votes (40.8 %)
- Dallas Adams: 388 votes (23.9 %)
- Inez Bordeaux: 201 votes (12.4 %)
- Overvotes: 372 (22.9 %)
- Total ballots: 1,624
Approval voting results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-alderman-ward3/approval#approval
- Approval Winner: Shane Cohn
- Approval Results:
- Shane Cohn (Shane_Cohn) — 921 approvals (56.71% of ballots) (✅ winner)
- Dallas Adams (Dallas_Adams) — 694 approvals (42.73% of ballots)
- Inez Bordeaux (Inez_Bordeaux) — 450 approvals (27.71% of ballots)
- Total: 1,624 ballots (2,065 total approvals)
IRV/RCV results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-alderman-ward3/IRV#IRV
See transformed ballots
Note: For IRV/RCV, these ranked ballots are inferred from choose_many ballots.
Conversion method: least_approval_first
#------- metadata -------
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{emptyballotcount: "33358"}
{ballot_type: "choose_many"}
{max_rating: "1"}
{contest_native_id: "812850db-7416-479c-ab15-5669ccec0d2a"}
{election_name: "2025 St. Louis Primary Election"}
{election_date: "2025-03-04"}
{jurisdiction: "St. Louis, Missouri"}
{source_url: "https://github.com/fsargent/approval-vote/raw/refs/heads/main/st-louis-cvr/data/CVRExport-8-27-2025.zip"}
{ext_url_01: "https://github.com/fsargent/approval-vote/tree/main/st-louis-cvr"}
{contestid: "3"}
#------ candlines ------
=Dallas_Adams:[Dallas Adams]
=Shane_Cohn:[Shane Cohn]
=Inez_Bordeaux:[Inez Bordeaux]
#------- votelines ------
663:Shane_Cohn
388:Dallas_Adams
201:Inez_Bordeaux
123:Dallas_Adams>Shane_Cohn
114:Inez_Bordeaux>Dallas_Adams
69:Inez_Bordeaux>Dallas_Adams>Shane_Cohn
66:Inez_Bordeaux>Shane_Cohn
- IRV/RCV Winner: Shane Cohn with 729 votes (44.9%) in final round
- Runner-up: Dallas Adams with 694 votes (42.7%) in final round
- Exhausted ballots in final round: 201 (12.4%)
- Number of rounds: 2
- Ballots counted in final round: 1,423 (87.6%)
- Majority of ballots: 813 (50.1%)
- Total ballots: 1,624
| Round 1 | Round 2 |
|---|---|
| Overview: Active ballots: 1,624 (100.0%) Exhausted ballots: 0 (0.0%) Counted ballots: 1,624 (100.0%) |
Overview: Active ballots: 1,624 (100.0%) Exhausted ballots: 201 (12.4%) Counted ballots: 1,423 (87.6%) Winning threshold: 712 (43.84%) |
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Shane Cohn: 663 (40.8%)
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IRV/RCV winner: Shane Cohn: 729 (44.9%)✅ →
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Dallas Adams: 511 (31.5%)
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Dallas Adams: 694 (42.7%)
(🛑eliminated)
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Inez Bordeaux: 450 (27.7%)
(🛑eliminated)
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STAR results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-alderman-ward3/STAR#STAR
- STAR winner: Shane Cohn
- Finalists: Shane Cohn vs Dallas Adams
- Runoff result:
- Shane Cohn: 729 votes (44.9%)
- Dallas Adams: 502 votes (30.9%)
- No preference: 393 voters (24.2%)
- Total stars allocated: 2,065
- Total ballots: 1,624
- First round:
- ★#0: Shane Cohn received 921 stars (44.6%) from 921 voters (56.7%)
- ★#1: Dallas Adams received 694 stars (33.6%) from 694 voters (42.7%)
- ★#2: Inez Bordeaux received 450 stars (21.8%) from 450 voters (27.7%)
- Finalists:
- ★Shane Cohn (✅ winner) preferred by 729 of 1,624 voters
- ★Dallas Adams preferred by 502 of 1,624 voters
- ★No preference between the finalists: 393
Condorcet/Copeland results
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-alderman-ward3/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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{ballot_type: "choose_many"}
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{contest_native_id: "812850db-7416-479c-ab15-5669ccec0d2a"}
{election_name: "2025 St. Louis Primary Election"}
{election_date: "2025-03-04"}
{jurisdiction: "St. Louis, Missouri"}
{source_url: "https://github.com/fsargent/approval-vote/raw/refs/heads/main/st-louis-cvr/data/CVRExport-8-27-2025.zip"}
{ext_url_01: "https://github.com/fsargent/approval-vote/tree/main/st-louis-cvr"}
{contestid: "3"}
#------ candlines ------
=Dallas_Adams:[Dallas Adams]
=Shane_Cohn:[Shane Cohn]
=Inez_Bordeaux:[Inez Bordeaux]
#------- votelines ------
663:Shane_Cohn
388:Dallas_Adams
201:Inez_Bordeaux
123:Dallas_Adams>Shane_Cohn
114:Inez_Bordeaux>Dallas_Adams
69:Inez_Bordeaux>Dallas_Adams>Shane_Cohn
66:Inez_Bordeaux>Shane_Cohn
- Winner: Shane Cohn
- Runner-up: Dallas Adams (beats all other candidates except Shane Cohn)
- Smallest margin: Dallas Adams over Inez Bordeaux (511-450; margin: 61)
- Largest margin: Shane Cohn over Inez Bordeaux (786-450; margin: 336)
- Pairwise ties: none
- Total ballots: 1,624
Win-loss-tie (Condorcet/Copeland) table
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-alderman-ward3/pairwise#wlt
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Shane Cohn
(2-0-0)
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Shane Cohn
2 victories ⇣ |
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Dallas Adams
(1-1-0)
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Shane Cohn:
729(44.9%)
Dallas Adams:
694(42.7%)
(No preference: 201; 12.4%)
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Dallas Adams
⇽ 1 loss / 1 victory† ⇣ |
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Inez Bordeaux
(0-2-0)
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Shane Cohn:
786(48.4%)
Inez Bordeaux:
450(27.7%)
(No preference: 388; 23.9%)
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Dallas Adams:
511(31.5%)
Inez Bordeaux:
450(27.7%)
(No preference: 663; 40.8%)
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Pairwise tournament (Copeland ordered)
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-alderman-ward3/pairwise#dot
Voting methods: FPTP • approval • IRV • STAR • Pairwise • All methods
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