ranked.vote // Salt Lake County Salt Lake City Council District 3

The Salt Lake County 2025 Municipal General Election was held on November 4, 2025. Chris Wharton was the winner out of 5 candidates after 2 elimination rounds.

Chris Wharton was also the Condorcet winner.

Chris WhartonBlake McclaryLiddy Huntsman-HernandezEliminated in round 2David BergEliminated in round 1Jake SeastrandEliminated 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 3Chris WhartonBlake McclaryLiddy Huntsman-HernandezDavid BergJake SeastrandExhausted42.4%23.7%17%12%50.5%27.7%20.7%58.1%37.4%Chris WhartonBlake McclaryExhausted

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
Chris Wharton
Blake Mcclary
Liddy Huntsman-Hernandez
David Berg
Jake Seastrand
Chris Wharton60.8%64.6%72.1%77%
Blake Mcclary39.2%56.1%63.1%69.6%
Liddy Huntsman-Hernandez35.4%43.9%60.4%64.6%
David Berg27.9%36.9%39.6%55.9%
Jake Seastrand23%30.4%35.4%44.1%

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
Chris Wharton
Blake Mcclary
Liddy Huntsman-Hernandez
David Berg
Jake Seastrand
Exhausted
Chris Wharton25.1%23.6%18.9%12.6%19.7%
Blake Mcclary24.8%35.6%8.9%11.7%19%
Liddy Huntsman-Hernandez25.4%35.1%12.4%11.6%15.5%
David Berg45.1%16.8%19.1%15.4%3.6%
Jake Seastrand30.9%22.5%18.9%21.3%6.3%

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
4
5
All Candidates
(7,158 voters)
16.3%15.4%12.5%4.2%51.7%
Chris Wharton
(3,042 voters)
19.7%16.5%13.4%3.7%46.6%
Blake Mcclary
(1,703 voters)
19.0%15.7%12.6%4.1%48.7%
Liddy Huntsman-Hernandez
(1,217 voters)
15.5%17.7%12.0%3.5%51.4%
David Berg
(863 voters)
3.6%10.9%10.3%5.2%70.0%
Jake Seastrand
(333 voters)
6.3%7.8%10.5%8.1%67.3%

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
Chris Wharton
Blake Mcclary
Exhausted
Liddy Huntsman-Hernandez34.5%47.7%17.7%
David Berg62.6%31.1%6.4%
Jake Seastrand50.8%40.2%9%

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