Majority Rules

Results of the Straw Poll

Citywide 266 people voted using the straw poll’s Ranked Choice Ballot for DFL governor. Only one voter mismarked their or ballot making it defective. The overall winner was Margaret Anderson Kelliher in the 11th round with 55% of the continuing candidate’s votes. Anderson Kelliher bested Rybak in two of the three locations conducting the poll on Tuesday evening. A hand count was performed after the initial tally to verify the results. Repeated wi-fi disconnects at the central tally location had caused ballot entry errors, which were corrected by the hand-count.

Location Results

At the North Commons Park location the first tally shows 48 valid votes, the top candidates are tied with 29% (14 votes each).  They are Margaret Anderson Kelliher and R T Rybak, with Paul Thissen third with 7 votes (15%).  

At the CWA location, after a change of venue to Longfellow Park there were 82 valid votes in the initial tally.  The top candidate is Margaret Anderson Kelliher with 40% of the vote (33 votes), second is John Marty with 23% (19 votes), third is RT Rybak with 12% of the vote (10 votes). 

At Tiger Sushi there were 135 valid votes in the initial tally. The only spoiled for the evening ballot was submitted in this location. The tally showed strong support for RT Rybak with 37% (50 votes), second was Margaret Anderson Kelliher 35% (47 votes), third was Paul Thissen with 11% (15 votes), fourth was John Marty with 10% (13 votes). 

Total valid votes:		265
Number of be elected:		1
raw 50% number		132.5
Rounded down		132
Threshold = 50% + 1:		133
		Round 1 all locations			Round 1 - North Commons				Round 1 - CWA (Longfellow Park)				Round 1 - Tiger Sushi
Candidate		1st Choices	Percent		1st Choices	Percent	+/- comp to all		1st Choices	Percent	+/- comp to all		1st Choices	%	+/- comp to all
Tom Bakk		1	0%		0	0%	-0		1	1%	1		0	0%	-0
Chris Coleman		5	2%		0	0%	-2		4	5%	3		1	1%	-1
Mark Dayton		6	2%		3	6%	4		2	2%	0		1	1%	-2
Matt Entenza		8	3%		4	8%	5		2	2%	-1		2	1%	-2
Susan Gaertner		5	2%		3	6%	4		0	0%	-2		2	1%	-0
Steve Kelley		4	2%		0	0%	-2		2	2%	1		2	1%	-0
Margaret Anderson Kelliher		94	35%		14	29%	-6		33	40%	5		47	35%	-1
John Marty		33	12%		1	2%	-10		19	23%	11		13	10%	-3
Doug Peterson		0	0%		0	0%	0		0	0%	0		0	0%	0
Tom Rukavina		5	2%		1	2%	0		4	5%	3		0	0%	-2
R.T. Rybak		74	28%		14	29%	1		10	12%	-16		50	37%	9
Paul Thissen		26	10%		7	15%	5		4	5%	-5		15	11%	1
Tim Walz		3	1%		1	2%	1		1	1%	0		1	1%	-0
write in, if any		1	0%		0	0%	-0		0	0%	-0		1	1%	0
Exhausted Ballots		0					0			0%	0				0
Continuing candidate Subtotal		265			48				82				135
TOTAL BALLOTS		265	100%		48	100%			82	100%			135	100%

Citywide the initial tally has Margaret Anderson Kelliher with 35% (94 votes), second RT Rybak with 28% (74 votes), John Marty was third 12% (33 votes) and Paul Thissen was fourth with 10% (26 votes).  The remaining nine candidates received 38 votes in total, 14% of the vote.     

Citywide there were 11 rounds of balloting, with candidates eliminated sequentially from lowest to highest in terms of number of votes received until two candidates remained and one emerged with a majority of continuing candidates.

In the next to final round, the three remaining candidates are John Marty, RT Rybak and Margaret Anderson Kelliher John Marty is eliminated and his 49 ballots are split between RT Rybak and Margaret Anderson Kelliher. Those ballots without these two candidates remaining as choices are exhausted.  In the 11th round Margaret Anderson Kelliher emerges as the top vote getter with 55% of the continuing candidates votes, and RT Rybak has 45%. A total of only 34 ballots were exhausted throughout the 11 rounds of counting as most voters ranked four or more candidates on their ballots.   

DFL Straw Poll for 2010 Governor
Majority Rules Event: September 15, 2009
TALLY SHEET
Total votes:			265
Number of candidates to be elected:			1
Threshold = 50% + 1:			133
		Round 1			Round 2			Round 3			Round 4			Round 5			Round 6			Round 7			Round 8			Round 9			Round 10			Round 11 - Final
Candidate		Percent	1st Choices		Transfer	Total		Transfer	Total		Transfer	Total		Transfer	Total		Transfer	Total		Transfer	Total		Transfer	Total		Transfer	Total		Transfer	Total		Transfer	Total	Percent
Tom Bakk		0%	1		-1	0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0	0%
Chris Coleman		2%	5		1	6			6			6			6			6		-6	0			0			0			0			0	0%
Mark Dayton		2%	6			6		1	7			7			7			7		2	9			9		-9	0			0			0	0%
Matt Entenza		3%	8			8			8			8			8		1	9			9		-9	0			0			0			0	0%
Susan Gaertner		2%	5			5			5		1	6			6		-6	0			0			0			0			0			0	0%
Steve Kelley		2%	4			4			4		-4	0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0	0%
Margaret Anderson Kelliher		35%	94			94		1	95		1	96		2	98			98		1	99		5	104		5	109		7	116		12	128	55%
John Marty		12%	33			33			33		1	34		1	35		2	37		1	38		2	40		1	41		8	49		-49	0	0%
Doug Peterson		0%	0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0	0%
Tom Rukavina		2%	5			5			5			5		-5	0			0			0			0			0			0			0	0%
R.T. Rybak		28%	74		1	75			75			75			75			75			75		1	76			76		8	84		19	103	45%
Paul Thissen		10%	26			26		1	27			27		1	28		1	29		2	31			31		1	32		-32	0			0	0%
Tim Walz		1%	3			3		-3	0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0	0%
write in, if any		0%	1		-1	0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0	0%
Exhausted Ballots			0			0			0		1	1		1	2		2	4			4		1	5		2	7		9	16		18	34
TOTAL BALLOTS		100%	265		0	265		0	265		0	265		0	265		0	265		0	265		0	265		0	265		0	265		0	265	100%
Continuing Candidate Subtotal			265			265			265			264			263			261			261			260			258			249			231
Final Results
		Votes	%
Margaret Anderson Kelliher		128	55%
RT Rybak		103	45%