ranked.vote // San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 7

The San Francisco Consolidated General Election was held on November 8, 2016. Norman Yee was the winner out of 5 candidatesafter 3 elimination rounds.

Norman Yee was also the Condorcet winner.

Norman YeeJoel EngardioBen MatrangaEliminated in round 3John FarrellEliminated in round 2Mike YoungEliminated 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 2Round 3Round 4Norman YeeJoel EngardioBen MatrangaJohn FarrellMike YoungExhaustedNorman YeeJoel EngardioExhausted

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
Joel Engardio
John Farrell
Mike Young
Norman Yee
Ben Matranga
Joel Engardio56.5%66.5%42%50.8%
John Farrell43.5%64.8%37%41.7%
Mike Young33.5%35.2%26.5%32.3%
Norman Yee58%63%73.5%59.2%
Ben Matranga49.2%58.3%67.7%40.8%

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
Joel Engardio
John Farrell
Mike Young
Norman Yee
Ben Matranga
Exhausted
Joel Engardio19.7%9.3%21.2%33.6%16.2%
John Farrell19.1%26.7%14.5%24.6%15.1%
Mike Young16.5%30.3%24.6%16.7%11.8%
Norman Yee18.7%12.4%12.8%20.5%35.5%
Ben Matranga27.8%27.7%10.9%17.9%15.7%

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
(35,274 voters)
23.4%13.9%62.7%
Norman Yee
(14,179 voters)
35.5%13.2%51.3%
Joel Engardio
(7,645 voters)
16.2%16.5%67.3%
Ben Matranga
(6,498 voters)
15.7%13.6%70.8%
John Farrell
(4,948 voters)
15.1%12.6%72.4%
Mike Young
(2,004 voters)
11.8%13.1%75.0%

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
Joel Engardio
Norman Yee
Exhausted
John Farrell36.7%25.2%38%
Mike Young32.7%35.3%32%
Ben Matranga41.5%24%34.5%

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