2015 Republican Liberty Caucus straw poll
In 2015, the Center for Election Science (CES) handled the Republican Liberty Caucus straw poll, using three different voting methods: Plurality voting, Approval voting, Score voting (0-5).[1] There were 779 voters and all voters used all three voting methods. The Republican Liberty Caucus chose the Approval voting results as the official results.
Results
There were 16 candidates on the ballot, with 2 slots for write-ins. (Write-ins are shown in italics in the chart below.)
Under all three voting systems, Rand Paul was the winner, with Ted Cruz in second place. Under Plurality, satirical write-in candidate Gil Fulbright came in third, but he was much lower in the Approval and Score rankings.
Several of the candidates who got low scores in the Plurality election received significantly higher scores in the Approval and Score elections.
One voter wrote-in Hillary Clinton, with a score of zero, putting her in last place under all voting systems.
Raw score totals:
Candidate | Plurality | Approval | Score |
---|---|---|---|
Rand Paul | 403 | 445 | 2438 |
Ted Cruz | 342 | 399 | 2129 |
Ben Carson | 2 | 139 | 1075 |
Carly Fiorina | 6 | 79 | 819 |
Marco Rubio | 2 | 75 | 703 |
Donald Trump | 9 | 54 | 573 |
Bobby Jindal | 0 | 51 | 678 |
Rick Santorum | 0 | 26 | 447 |
Mike Huckabee | 0 | 25 | 422 |
John Kasich | 0 | 17 | 340 |
Chris Christie | 0 | 14 | 309 |
Gil Fulbright | 11 | 12 | 50 |
Jeb Bush | 1 | 9 | 240 |
George Pataki | 0 | 6 | 220 |
Lindsey Graham | 0 | 4 | 156 |
Jim Gilmore | 0 | 3 | 221 |
Vermin Supreme | 0 | 3 | 14 |
Mark Everson | 0 | 2 | 180 |
Heather Wagenhals | 0 | 2 | 10 |
Paul Jacob | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Ron Paul | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Mitt Romney | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Ben Shapiro | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Hillary Clinton | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Analysis
The raw ballots were published by CES, making it possible to analyze voter behavior:[2]
Approval election
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- There were 1.8 approvals per ballot on average, with a maximum of 14 on one ballot.
- 70% of voters bullet-voted for only one candidate
Score election
- 44% of voters bullet-voted for only candidate
- 26% of voters rated all 16 candidates on the ballot
References
- ↑ "CES Conducts the Republican Liberty Caucus Straw Poll". The Center for Election Science. 2015-10-14. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
- ↑ "RLCNC_2015_StrawPoll.csv". results.electology.org. Retrieved 2018-12-16.