ranked.vote // San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 2

The San Francisco General Election was held on November 6, 2018. Catherine Stefani was the winner out of 4 candidates after 1 elimination round.

Catherine Stefani was also the Condorcet winner.

Catherine StefaniNick JosefowitzSchuyler HudakEliminated in round 1John DennisEliminated 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 2Catherine StefaniNick JosefowitzSchuyler HudakJohn DennisExhausted36.1%34.2%10.4%7.8%11.5%43.5%40.2%16.3%Catherine StefaniNick JosefowitzExhausted

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
Catherine Stefani
Nick Josefowitz
Schuyler Hudak
John Dennis
Catherine Stefani51.9%70.2%80.6%
Nick Josefowitz48.1%66.1%77.8%
Schuyler Hudak29.8%33.9%71.1%
John Dennis19.4%22.2%28.9%

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
Catherine Stefani
Nick Josefowitz
Schuyler Hudak
John Dennis
Exhausted
Catherine Stefani31.5%28.9%8%31.6%
Nick Josefowitz42%24%8.8%25.2%
Schuyler Hudak42.1%29.3%14.4%14.2%
John Dennis19.1%22.5%25.5%32.9%

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
(35,312 voters)
27.2%20.7%52.2%
Catherine Stefani
(14,415 voters)
31.6%21.7%46.7%
Nick Josefowitz
(13,644 voters)
25.2%20.5%54.3%
Schuyler Hudak
(4,145 voters)
14.2%19.2%66.6%
John Dennis
(3,108 voters)
32.9%18.2%48.8%

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
Catherine Stefani
Nick Josefowitz
Exhausted
Schuyler Hudak48.1%35.1%16.8%
John Dennis30%30.9%39.1%

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