ranked.vote // San Francisco Sheriff

The San Francisco Consolidated Municipal Election was held on November 3, 2015. Vicki Hennessy was the winner out of 3 candidatesafter 1 elimination round.

Vicki Hennessy was also the Condorcet winner.

Vicki HennessyRoss MirkarimiJohn RobinsonEliminated in round 1

Runoff Rounds

This Sankey diagram shows the votes of each remaining candidate at each round, as well as the breakdown of votes transferred when each candidate was eliminated.

Note that the tabulation (but not the winner) may differ from the official count. You can read more about why this is.

Round 1Round 2Vicki HennessyRoss MirkarimiJohn RobinsonExhaustedVicki HennessyRoss MirkarimiExhausted

Pairwise Preferences

For every pair of candidates, this table shows the fraction of voters who preferred one to the other. A preference means that either a voter ranks a candidate ahead of the other, or ranks one candidate but does not list the other. Ballots which rank neither candidate are not counted towards the percent counts.

Less-preferred Candidate
Preferred Candidate
Vicki Hennessy
John Robinson
Ross Mirkarimi
Vicki Hennessy88%65.1%
John Robinson12%36.4%
Ross Mirkarimi34.9%63.6%

First Alternate

For every pair of candidates, this table shows the fraction of voters who ranked one candidate first ranked the other candidate second.

Second Choice
First Choice
Vicki Hennessy
John Robinson
Ross Mirkarimi
Exhausted
Vicki Hennessy30.7%16.5%52.9%
John Robinson46.8%17.8%35.4%
Ross Mirkarimi37%12.2%50.7%

Ranking Distribution

This shows how many candidates voters ranked, both overall and broken down by each candidate's first-choice supporters. This reveals whether some candidates attracted voters who ranked multiple candidates versus those who ranked fewer candidates.

Number of Candidates Ranked
Candidate
1
2
3
All Candidates
(185,831 voters)
51.1%20.3%28.6%
Vicki Hennessy
(113,349 voters)
52.9%22.4%24.7%
Ross Mirkarimi
(61,446 voters)
50.7%15.3%34.0%
John Robinson
(11,036 voters)
35.4%25.7%38.9%

Final Vote by First Choice

This table tracks which candidate ballots were ultimately allocated to, among ballots that ranked an eliminated candidate first.

Final Round Choice
First Round Choice
Vicki Hennessy
Ross Mirkarimi
Exhausted
John Robinson46.8%17.8%35.4%

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