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2009 Burlington mayoral election: Difference between revisions

Pulling copying a table I created from an older revision of 2009 Burlington mayoral election (specifically: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2009_Burlington_mayoral_election&oldid=1051985238 ) and putting it in the #Further analysis section of this page
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(Pulling copying a table I created from an older revision of 2009 Burlington mayoral election (specifically: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2009_Burlington_mayoral_election&oldid=1051985238 ) and putting it in the #Further analysis section of this page)
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*[http://bolson.org/~bolson/2009/20090303_burlington_vt_mayor.html Brian Olson's analysis of the election]
 
 
Pairwise preference combinations:<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>
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="3" rowspan="2" |&nbsp;
|&nbsp;
| style="background-color: {{Green Party (United States)/meta/color }};" |&nbsp;
| style="background-color: {{Independent politician/meta/color }};" |&nbsp;
| style="background-color: {{Vermont Republican Party/meta/color}};" |&nbsp;
| style="background-color: {{Vermont Progressive Party/meta/color}};" |&nbsp;
| style="background-color: {{Vermont Democratic Party/meta/color}};" |&nbsp;
|-
!wi
!JS
!DS
!KW
!BK
!AM
|-
! style="background-color: {{Vermont Democratic Party/meta/color}}; width: 2px;" |&nbsp;
!AM
| colspan="6" |Andy
Montroll (4–0)
|4 Wins ↓
|-
! style="background-color: {{Vermont Progressive Party/meta/color}}; width: 2px;" |&nbsp;
!BK
| colspan="5" |Bob
Kiss (3–1)
|1 Loss →
↓ 3 Wins
|4064 (AM) –
3476 (BK)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Vermont Republican Party/meta/color}}; width: 2px;" |&nbsp;
!KW
| colspan="4" |Kurt
Wright (2–2)
|2 Losses →
2 Wins ↓
|4313 (BK) –
4061 (KW)
|4597 (AM) –
3664 (KW)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician/meta/color }}; width: 2px;" |&nbsp;
!DS
| colspan="3" |Dan
Smith (1–3)
|3 Losses →
1 Win ↓
|3971 (KW) –
3793 (DS)
|3944 (BK) –
3576 (DS)
|4570 (AM) –
2997 (DS)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Green Party (United States)/meta/color }}; width: 2px;" |&nbsp;
!JS
| colspan="2" |James
Simpson (0–4)
|4 Losses →
|5570 (DS) –
721 (JS)
|5270 (KW) –
1310 (JS)
|5514 (BK) –
844 (JS)
|6262 (AM) –
591 (JS)
|}
This leads to an overall preference ranking of:<ref name=":2" />
 
# Montroll – defeats all candidates below, including Kiss (4,064 to 3,476)
# Kiss – defeats all candidates below, including Wright (4,313 to 4,061)
# Wright – defeats all candidates below, including Smith (3,971 to 3,793)
# Smith – defeats Simpson (5,570 to 721) and the write-in candidates
 
Montroll was therefore preferred over Kiss by 54% of voters, preferred over Wright by 56% of voters, over Smith by 60%, and over Simpson by 91% of voters.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.electionscience.org/library/irv-and-core-support/|title=IRV and Core Support|website=The Center for Election Science|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-04}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{cite web|url=http://rangevoting.org/Burlington.html|title=Burlington Vermont 2009 IRV mayoral election|website=RangeVoting.org|access-date=2016-04-01}}</ref>
 
==Pairwise results==
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