2010 Oakland mayoral election: Difference between revisions

Oakland's 2010 mayoral election was an open-seat election in which no candidate earned more than 34% of votes in the first round. In the tally, candidates were eliminated sequentially, with three candidates far ahead in first choices. After the count of first choices, Don Perata was in first place, Jean Quan in second place, and Rebecca Kaplan in third place. They remained in that order of votes after all other candidates were eliminated and their votes re-allocated. When Kaplan was then eliminated, Quan picked up 18,864 votes from Kaplan backers while Perata was the next choice of only 6,407 Kaplan backers. As a result, Quan won a final round majority when matched against Perata, which means she was ranked ahead of Perata on a majority of ballots in which one of them received a ranking.(11% of voters did not rank either of them, making their votes exhausted by the time of the final round.)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acgov.org/rov/rcv/results/rcvresults_2984.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=November 11, 2011 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115182601/http://www.acgov.org/rov/rcv/results/rcvresults_2984.htm |archive-date=November 15, 2011 }}</ref>

Oakland used RCV for several elections in 2012, including a citywide election for city attorney and for several seats on the city council and school board.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://zennie62blog.com/2012/06/07/oakland-city-council-will-change-oaklanders-get-to-decide-how-dan-cohen-48125/ |title=Oakland City Council Will Change; Oaklanders Get To Decide How – Dan Cohen |website=Zennie62blog.com |date=2012-06-07 |access-date=2016-04-01}}</ref> Several races were decided after multiple rounds, including the District 3 city council race where the winner trailed in first choices.<ref>{{cite web|first=Mollie |last=Hailey |url=http://www.fairvote.org/fairvote-s-first-take-on-rcv-elections-in-four-bay-area-cities |title=FairVote's First Take on RCV Elections in Four Bay Area Cities |work=FairVote.org |date=2012-11-12 |access-date=2016-04-01}}</ref> Of the 18 Oakland offices elected by RCV in 2010 and 2012, sixteen of the RCV winners received more votes than the previous winner had won before adoption in the last non-RCV election <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fairvote.org/assets/Oakland-RCV-Analysis-2012.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-01-06 |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20130106162800/http://www.fairvote.org/assets/Oakland-RCV-Analysis-2012.pdf |archive-date=2013-01-06 |url-status = bot: unknown}}</ref>