For Semi-Live Results of this Week's Election...

[Gabu]

Looks good. How do you take into account Preferntial Voting on that, which will be used in 3 or more races?

It would seem to me that it'd be easy enough just to have the percentages add up to a number greater than 100.  The one with the highest percentage would be the winner.

EDIT: Or, another way would be just to take the votes for a certain candidate as a percentage of the total votes cast.

[Gabu]

Yeah, I like it too.  It looks like a very official results page like you'd find on any news agency.

[Gabu]

I think it would look better and more understandable if you left the second number of votes and percentage off unless the election did go into a runoff.  Just my personal opinion.

[Gabu]

The runoff result for Akno appears to be missing.

[Gabu]

That's what I meant; the election went into a runoff and both people who got 1 vote had Akno as their second preference, so he should have 10 votes, but that number is not on the eResults page.

[Gabu]

Not quite.  The person who voted for Al listed Akno as like his 4th preference, for these purposes we could call it second preference.  The person who voted for MAS117 listed no other preferences.  So Akno ends up with 9 votes.

Well, that's curious.  Why does the election results page show Akno as having 56% of the vote, then?  That would give him 10 votes.

[Gabu]

I'm going off of this page that gives Akno 56% of the vote after the runoff; since there are are 18 votes in total, (0.56)(18) = 10 votes.

[Gabu]

Well, 9 votes out of 17 is 53% and 8 votes out of 17 is 47%... at any rate, we know what the actual results are; I'm just commenting on the discrepancy between them and what the election results page seems to be showing.