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The Pierce County November 4, 2008 General Election was held on November 4, 2008. Pat Mccarthy was the winner out of 4 candidates after 2 elimination rounds.
Pat Mccarthy was also the Condorcet winner.
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.
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 | Pat Mccarthy | Shawn Bunney | Calvin Goings | Mike Lonergan | Write-In | |
| Pat Mccarthy | 50.7% | 53.2% | 59.7% | 98.7% | ||
| Shawn Bunney | 49.3% | 48.9% | 56.7% | 99.1% | ||
| Calvin Goings | 46.8% | 51.1% | 59.1% | 98.7% | ||
| Mike Lonergan | 40.3% | 43.3% | 40.9% | 98.6% | ||
| Write-In | 1.3% | 0.9% | 1.3% | 1.4% | ||
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 | Pat Mccarthy | Shawn Bunney | Calvin Goings | Mike Lonergan | Write-In | Exhausted | |
| Pat Mccarthy | 8.4% | 56.7% | 13.3% | 0.1% | 21.6% | ||
| Shawn Bunney | 12.2% | 13% | 29.4% | 0.7% | 44.7% | ||
| Calvin Goings | 51% | 12.3% | 12.4% | 0.1% | 24.2% | ||
| Mike Lonergan | 28.6% | 30% | 18.4% | 0.2% | 22.8% | ||
| Write-In | 4.4% | 9.6% | 4.8% | 10.5% | 70.7% | ||
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 (298,584 voters) | 30.6% | 18.1% | 51.3% | |
| Shawn Bunney (104,898 voters) | 44.7% | 14.8% | 40.5% | |
| Pat Mccarthy (79,046 voters) | 21.6% | 20.7% | 57.7% | |
| Calvin Goings (68,940 voters) | 24.2% | 20.7% | 55.0% | |
| Mike Lonergan (45,242 voters) | 22.8% | 17.3% | 59.9% | |
| Write-In (458 voters) | 70.7% | 12.2% | 17.0% | |
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 | Pat Mccarthy | Shawn Bunney | Exhausted | |
| Calvin Goings | 57.8% | 15.7% | 26.5% | |
| Mike Lonergan | 38% | 36.1% | 25.9% | |
| Write-In | 9.8% | 10.5% | 79.7% | |
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