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St. Louis 2025 Comptroller Election

🔗 stl-2025-comptroller     (tags: { actual , MO , USA , government , approval , 2025 })

Below is the ABIF from the "stl-2025-comptroller" election (St. Louis 2025 Comptroller Election)

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

Results

🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-comptroller

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 Darlene Green
Approval Donna M.c. Baringer
IRV/RCV Darlene Green
STAR Donna M.c. Baringer
Condorcet/Copeland Darlene Green
Election results summary showing voting method winners
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FPTP result

"FPTP" is "First-past-the-post", also known as "plurality" or "choose-one"
stl-2025-comptroller FPTP results permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-comptroller/FPTP#FPTP
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Note — Overvotes from approval/choose-many ballots not counted in FPTP
Details

This election used approval/choose-many ballots. For FPTP, each ballot must select exactly one first-choice candidate. Ballots with multiple top choices are treated as overvotes and do not count for any candidate; they are reported under Overvotes and included in the 'None' total.

  • FPTP Winner: Darlene Green with 12,241 first-place votes (36.4%)
  • Runner-up: Donna M.c. Baringer with 11,240 first-place votes (33.4%)
  • Margin of victory: 1,001 votes (3.0 percentage points)
  • First-place votes
    • Darlene Green: 12,241 votes (36.4 %)
    • Donna M.c. Baringer: 11,240 votes (33.4 %)
    • Celeste Metcalf: 3,384 votes (10.1 %)
  • Overvotes: 6,802 (20.2 %)
  • Total ballots: 33,667

Approval voting results

stl-2025-comptroller approval voting results permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-comptroller/approval#approval
  • Approval Winner: Donna M.c. Baringer
  • Approval Results:
    • Donna M.c. Baringer (Donna_M_c_Baringer) — 16,689 approvals (49.57% of ballots) (✅ winner)
    • Darlene Green (Darlene_Green) — 16,157 approvals (47.99% of ballots)
    • Celeste Metcalf (Celeste_Metcalf) — 8,557 approvals (25.42% of ballots)
  • Total: 33,667 ballots (41,403 total approvals)

IRV/RCV results

stl-2025-comptroller IRV/RCV result permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-comptroller/IRV#IRV
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Note — Ranked ballots inferred from choose-many ballots and approval results
Details

IRV/RCV was not used in this election. The ranked ballots shown here were inferred from choose-many ballots using approval results to create a deterministic global order within each voter’s approved set. These results are hypothetical and provided for what-if analysis.

See transformed ballots

Note: For IRV/RCV, these ranked ballots are inferred from choose_many ballots.

Conversion method: least_approval_first

#------- metadata -------
{ballotcount: 33667}
{ballotcount_abif_metadata: "34982"}
{emptyballotcount: "1315"}
{ballot_type: "choose_many"}
{max_rating: "1"}
{contest_native_id: "8b8b3d14-0f63-486d-aa7c-94f034f8d628"}
{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: "2"}
#------ candlines ------
=Donna_M_c_Baringer:[Donna M.c. Baringer]
=Darlene_Green:[Darlene Green]
=Celeste_Metcalf:[Celeste Metcalf]
#------- votelines ------
12241:Darlene_Green
11240:Donna_M_c_Baringer
3384:Celeste_Metcalf
2886:Celeste_Metcalf>Donna_M_c_Baringer
1629:Darlene_Green>Donna_M_c_Baringer
1353:Celeste_Metcalf>Darlene_Green
934:Celeste_Metcalf>Darlene_Green>Donna_M_c_Baringer

  • IRV/RCV Winner: Darlene Green with 16,157 votes (48.0%) in final round
  • Runner-up: Donna M.c. Baringer with 14,126 votes (42.0%) in final round
  • Exhausted ballots in final round: 3,384 (10.1%)
  • Number of rounds: 2
  • Ballots counted in final round: 30,283 (89.9%)
  • Majority of ballots: 16,834 (50.0%)
  • Total ballots: 33,667
Round 1 Round 2
Overview:
Active ballots: 33,667 (100.0%)

Exhausted ballots: 0 (0.0%)
Counted ballots: 33,667 (100.0%)
Overview:
Active ballots: 33,667 (100.0%)

Exhausted ballots: 3,384 (10.1%)
Counted ballots: 30,283 (89.9%)
Winning threshold: 15,142 (44.98%)
Darlene Green: 13,870 (41.2%)
→
 IRV/RCV winner:
Darlene Green: 16,157 (48.0%)✅
→
Donna M.c. Baringer: 11,240 (33.4%)
→
 Donna M.c. Baringer: 14,126 (42.0%) (🛑eliminated)
→
Celeste Metcalf: 8,557 (25.4%) (🛑eliminated)
→
 Celeste Metcalf

STAR results

stl-2025-comptroller STAR results permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-comptroller/STAR#STAR

  • STAR winner: Donna M.c. Baringer
  • Finalists: Donna M.c. Baringer vs Darlene Green
  • Runoff result:
    • Donna M.c. Baringer: 14,126 votes (42.0%)
    • Darlene Green: 13,594 votes (40.4%)
    • No preference: 5947 voters (17.7%)
  • Total stars allocated: 41,403
  • Total ballots: 33,667
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(one star above is approximately 828 stars allocated by voters)
  • First round:
    • ★#0: Donna M.c. Baringer received 16,689 stars (40.3%) from 16,689 voters (49.6%)
    • ★#1: Darlene Green received 16,157 stars (39.0%) from 16,157 voters (48.0%)
    • ★#2: Celeste Metcalf received 8,557 stars (20.7%) from 8,557 voters (25.4%)
  • Finalists:
    • ★Donna M.c. Baringer (✅ winner) preferred by 14,126 of 33,667 voters
    • ★Darlene Green preferred by 13,594 of 33,667 voters
    • ★No preference between the finalists: 5947

Condorcet/Copeland results

stl-2025-comptroller Condorcet/Copeland results permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-comptroller/pairwise#pairwise
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Note — Ranked ballots inferred from choose-many ballots and approval results
Details

Condorcet/Copeland was not used in this election. The ranked ballots shown here were inferred from choose-many ballots using approval results to create a deterministic global order within each voter's approved set. These results are hypothetical and provided for what-if analysis.

See transformed ballots

Note: For Condorcet/Copeland, these ranked ballots are inferred from choose_many ballots.

Conversion method: least_approval_first

#------- metadata -------
{ballotcount: 33667}
{ballotcount_abif_metadata: "34982"}
{emptyballotcount: "1315"}
{ballot_type: "choose_many"}
{max_rating: "1"}
{contest_native_id: "8b8b3d14-0f63-486d-aa7c-94f034f8d628"}
{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: "2"}
#------ candlines ------
=Donna_M_c_Baringer:[Donna M.c. Baringer]
=Darlene_Green:[Darlene Green]
=Celeste_Metcalf:[Celeste Metcalf]
#------- votelines ------
12241:Darlene_Green
11240:Donna_M_c_Baringer
3384:Celeste_Metcalf
2886:Celeste_Metcalf>Donna_M_c_Baringer
1629:Darlene_Green>Donna_M_c_Baringer
1353:Celeste_Metcalf>Darlene_Green
934:Celeste_Metcalf>Darlene_Green>Donna_M_c_Baringer
  • Winner: Darlene Green
  • Runner-up: Donna M.c. Baringer (beats all other candidates except Darlene Green)
  • Smallest margin: Donna M.c. Baringer over Celeste Metcalf (12,869-8,557; margin: 4,312)
  • Largest margin: Darlene Green over Donna M.c. Baringer (16,157-14,126; margin: 2,031)
  • Pairwise ties: none
  • Total ballots: 33,667

Win-loss-tie (Condorcet/Copeland) table

stl-2025-comptroller w-l-t table permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-comptroller/pairwise#wlt
St. Louis 2025 Comptroller Election pairwise matchups
Darlene Green
(2-0-0)
Darlene Green
2 victories ⇣
Donna M.c. Baringer
(1-1-0)
Darlene Green: 16,157(48.0%)
Donna M.c. Baringer: 14,126(42.0%)
(No preference: 3,384; 10.1%)
Donna M.c. Baringer
⇽ 1 loss / 1 victory† ⇣
Celeste Metcalf
(0-2-0)
Darlene Green: 13,870(41.2%)
Celeste Metcalf: 8,557(25.4%)
(No preference: 11,240; 33.4%)
Donna M.c. Baringer: 12,869(38.2%)
Celeste Metcalf: 8,557(25.4%)
(No preference: 12,241; 36.4%)

Pairwise tournament (Copeland ordered)

stl-2025-comptroller pairwise diagram permalink:
🔗https://abif.electorama.com/id/stl-2025-comptroller/pairwise#dot

%3 Darlene_Green Darlene_Green 2-0-0 (2 wins, 0 losses, 0 ties) Donna_M_c_Baringer Donna_M_c_Baringer 1-1-0 Darlene_Green->Donna_M_c_Baringer ← Darlene_Green: 16157 Donna_M_c_Baringer: 14126 Celeste_Metcalf Celeste_Metcalf 0-2-0 Darlene_Green->Celeste_Metcalf ← Darlene_Green: 13870 Celeste_Metcalf: 8557 Donna_M_c_Baringer->Celeste_Metcalf ← Donna_M_c_Baringer: 12869 Celeste_Metcalf: 8557

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

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