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{{Wikipedia|2009 Burlington mayoral election}}
In March 2009, the city of [[
Unlike Burlington's first IRV mayoral election in 2006, the mayoral race in 2009 was decided in three rounds. Bob Kiss won the election, receiving 28.8% of the vote in the first round, and receiving 48.0% in the final round (which made up 51.5% of the ballots which had not been exhausted), defeating final challenger Kurt Wright (who received more votes than Kiss in the earlier rounds, but only received 45.2% in the final round).
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|Kurt Wright
|[[File:Republican Disc.svg|
| align="right" |2,951
| align="right" |32.9%
| rowspan="3" |Ballots preferring Kiss, Wright, and Montroll advance to the second round.
|- ▼
|Bob Kiss
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| align="right" |2,585
| align="right" |28.8%
|- ▼
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|[[File:Democratic Disc.svg|
| align="right" |
2,063
| align="right" | 23.0%
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|Dan Smith
|[[File:NeutralPartyPlaceholder.svg|30x30px]](independent)
| align="right" |1,306
| align="right" |14.5%
| rowspan="3" |Ballots preferring Smith, Simpson and the write-in candidate were distributed to Kiss, Wright, and Montroll in the second round according to the first remaining preference on these ballots.
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|James Simpson
|[[File:Green Disc.svg|
| align="right" |35
| align="right" |0.4%
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| colspan="2" |Write-in
| align="right" | 36
| align="right" |
|-
| colspan="2" |''(exhausted pile)''
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| colspan="2" |'''Totals'''
| align="right" | 8,980
| align="right" |100.0%
|}
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pct. (%)
!Comment
|- ▼
| Kurt Wright
|[[File:Republican Disc.svg|20x20px]] [[Republican Party]]
| align="right" | +343
| align="right" |3,294
| align="right" |36.7%
| rowspan="2" |Ballots preferring Kiss and Wright advanced to the third round.
|-
|Bob Kiss
|[[File:
| align="right" | +396
| align="right" |2,981
| align="right" |33.2%
|- ▼
|Andy Montroll
|[[File:Democratic Disc.svg|20x20px]] [[Democratic Party]]
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| align="right" |2,554
| align="right" |28.4%
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|-
| colspan="2" |''(exhausted pile)''
| align="right" | +147
| align="right" |151
| align="right" |
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| colspan="3" |'''Totals'''
| align="right" |8,980
| align="right" |100.0%
|}
===
In the third round, Montroll's ballots from the second round were distributed to Kiss and Wright. Since
{| class="wikitable"
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! Candidate
!Party
!Transfers from
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|- {{Party shading/Vermont Progressive}}
|Bob Kiss
|[[File:
| align="right" | +1332
| align="right" |'''4,313'''
| align="right" |'''48.0%'''
|- {{Party shading/Republican}}
|Kurt Wright
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| align="right" | +767
| align="right" |4,061
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===Pairwise results===
This is the results of the Burlington, Vermont mayoral election of 2009 had they used a pairwise method such as the [[Copeland method]]:<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://bolson.org/~bolson/2009/20090303_burlington_vt_mayor.html|title=2009 Burlington Mayor IRV Failure|last=Olson|first=Brian|date=2009|website=bolson.org|access-date=1 October 2017|quote=This is an IRV failure. The IRV result is clearly not what people actually wanted. More people liked Montroll over Kiss than the other way around, but IRV elected the loser.}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://electowiki.org/wiki/2009_Burlington,_Vermont_Mayoral_Election|title=2009 Burlington, Vermont Mayoral Election|website=Electowiki|language=en|access-date=2018-01-03}}</ref>
{{Burlington 2009 pairwise table}}
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This leads to an overall preference ranking of:<ref name=":2" />
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! Top preference
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|Kurt Wright (Republican)
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|Bob Kiss (Progressive)
|2585
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|Andy Montroll (Democrat)
|2063
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|Dan Smith (Independent)
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|James Simpson (Green)
|35
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*Static PNG link: https://static.miraheze.org/electowikiwiki/thumb/4/4f/Burlington2009election-infosheet.png/900px-Burlington2009election-infosheet.png
==Links==
==Further analysis==▼
*[http://bolson.org/~bolson/2009/20090303_burlington_vt_mayor.html Brian Olson's analysis of the election]▼
===Raw data===
Pairwise tallies for each of the candidates are available on the following subpages:
*[[User:RobLa/2009 Burlington, Vermont Mayoral Election - Kiss Voters|Schulze (Condorcet) results among Bob Kiss (P) voters]]
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*[[User:RobLa/2009 Burlington, Vermont Mayoral Election - Smith Voters|Schulze (Condorcet) results among Dan Smith (I) voters]]
*[[User:RobLa/2009 Burlington, Vermont Mayoral Election - Wright Voters|Schulze (Condorcet) results among Kurt Wright (R) voters]]
▲Raw data: [[2009 Burlington, Vermont Mayoral Election data]]
===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p50fctZC6Bw Ranked Choice Ballots in Burlington] — creator: [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-a0XRd2fJanxybICJ5uz-w Sygnol]; date: August 12, 2019 "''Data visualization of Burlington Vermont's controversial 2009 Mayoral election, comparing results from the best known Ranked Choice Voting tabulation systems: Instant Runoff, Condorcet and Borda (Abbreviated version of the original video).''"
▲*[http://bolson.org/~bolson/2009/20090303_burlington_vt_mayor.html Brian Olson's analysis of the election]
===References===
<references />
[[Category:IRV elections|Vermont]]
[[Category:Vermont]]
[[Category:Mayoral elections in the United States|Vermont]]
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