Mitchell wins!
Two candidate preferred vote:
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Lauda (48.5%) ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓█▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ (51.5%) Mitchell
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Lauda: 48
Mitchell: 51
Exhausted: 19
Swing-o-meter:
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Lauda (+1.1%) ░░░░░░░░░░░░████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ (-1.1%) Mitchell
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Lauda got a couple of extra votes in the final day, but in the end it just wasn't enough. Congratulations to Mitchell.
Final rankings:
Candidate | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 |
#1 Mitchell | 34 (28.8%) | 36 (30.5%) | 41 (34.7%) | 50 (42.7%) | 51 (51.5%) |
#2 Lauda | 37 (31.4%) | 38 (32.2%) | 41 (34.7%) | 45 (38.5%) | 48 (48.5%) |
#3 HostFat | 20 (16.9%) | 20 (16.9%) | 21 (17.8%) | 22 (18.8%) | 0 |
#4 Dabs | 14 (11.9%) | 15 (12.7%) | 15 (12.7%) | 0 | 0 |
#5 achow101 | 8 (6.8%) | 9 (7.6%) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
#6 mprep | 5 (4.2%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
#7 Adriano | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
=7 xandry | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Exhausted | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19 |
Here's how the result would have turned out under some other voting systems:
First past the post:
The standard plurality system familiar to most people. The candidate with the most #1 votes wins!
#1 Lauda: 37 █████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ (31.4%)
#2 Mitchell: 34 ████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ (28.8%)
#3 HostFat: 20 ███████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ (16.9%)
#4 Dabs: 14 █████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ (11.9%)
#5 achow101: 8 ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ( 6.8%)
#6 mprep: 5 ██░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ( 4.2%)
#7 Adriano: 0 ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ( 0.0%)
=7 xandry: 0 ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ( 0.0%)
Lauda would have won under this system, though the rankings of the other candidates would remain unchanged.
Borda count:
Candidates receive 3 points for each #1 vote, 2 points for each #2 vote, and 1 point for each #3 vote. Naturally, the one with the most points wins!
#1 Mitchell: 188 ███████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ (28.4%)
#2 Lauda: 176 ███████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ (26.6%)
#3 achow101: 97 ██████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ (14.7%)
#4 Dabs: 84 █████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ (12.7%)
#5 HostFat: 67 ████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ (10.1%)
#6 mprep: 42 ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ( 6.3%)
#7 Adriano: 7 ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ( 1.1%)
#8 xandry: 1 ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ( 0.2%)
Mitchell still wins by a narrow margin, but with no eliminations, achow101 takes 3rd place. With #1 votes not as helpful under this system, and not having much else to go on, HostFat drops down to 5th place. Last, and in fact least, there is no longer a tie for last place. Xandry loses having received only a single #3 vote.
Bucklin voting:
When no candidate has a majority of #1 votes, #2 votes are added to the mix (and #3, if there's still no majority leader). (Majority is defined as 50% of the ballots (in this case 59), so it's possible for more than one candidate to have a majority after several rounds. In that case, the one with the highest count wins.)
#1 Mitchell: 68 ████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ (30.5%)
#2 Lauda: 58 ██████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ (26.0%)
#3 achow101: 31 ██████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ (13.9%)
#4 Dabs: 25 ████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ (11.2%)
#5 HostFat: 23 ████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ (10.3%)
#6 mprep: 15 ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ( 6.7%)
#7 Adriano: 3 █░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ( 1.3%)
#8 xandry: 0 ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ( 0.0%)
Exhausted: 13
Mitchell is the only candidate to reach the requisite 59 votes and is the clear winner. As with the Borda system, achow101 is in 3rd and HostFat is in 5th, with #2 votes being more decisive. Again, xandry is in last place, with the single #3 vote not counting at all.
It's worth noting that this election was close enough that under systems where ballot exhaustion is a possibility (instant run-off and Bucklin), the exhausted ballots could have decided the outcome had they counted. Most of them were cases of people not putting a #2 or #3 preference. The outcome might have been different had people known how to vote properly.
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(Some percentages may not add to exactly 100.0% due to rounding errors.)