Ranked-Choice Voting in East Bay Cities

In 2010, the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, and San Leandro will join San Francisco in the use of an instant runoff process to elect its mayor or council members, in which voters rank their choices on one ballot rather than vote for one candidate in one election and then another in a separate runoff election. Here, you can see results for those contests with more than one round, and try a Ranked Choice practice poll.

Rank the candidates you support, in order of preference. 1st choice Lou Bob Kim 2nd choice Lou Bob Kim 3rd choice Lou Bob Kim Your vote will count for your highest-ranked candidate, but some candidates may be eliminated.

Your vote counts for Bob, your first choice. Nobody has a majority mandate from voters.   50% Kim  Lou  Bob  So we eliminate Bob, and recount.

Kim gets enough of Bob's second choices to get a majority.   50% Kim  Lou  In this count, because Bob was eliminated, your vote counted for Kim, your second choice.

2010 Results

Click on a city or district to see results there.

2010 Multi-Round Contests Results Oakland Mayor Oakland City Council, District 4 San Leandro Mayor Berkeley City Council, District 7   For fun, you can vote in this poll: Favorite Oakland Zoo animal   See also the San Francisco results

In 2010, there were 17 Ranked-choice elections. 8 had more than two candidates, and are shown on the map. The results released by the county separate out all "overvotes" (more than one vote in the same column), whereas the DemoChoice software treats them as votes for "none of these". The contests that are not shown in the table had a first-round winner.

Nonprofit organizations that provide advocacy and education on RCV:
Californians for Electoral Reform
Fairvote

Article on the 3-choice limit
Comparison of voter participation and vote effectiveness between 2006 and 2010 (PDF)
and analysis by district

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DemoChoice is not affiliated with or authorized by the Alameda County Registrar of Voters, the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, or San Leandro, or any candidate in the election. Any ballot links to candidates are those that appear on the first page of a Google search, or as directly requested by a candidate.