2021 City Council Ward 5 election results

Official winner: Jeremiah Ellison

November 2, 2021

Municipal Election

This was a ranked-choice voting (RCV) race. Voters were asked to rank up to three candidates. After three rounds of tabulation, Jeremiah Ellison was elected.

Council Member Ward 5
CandidateFirst-choice votesFinal round votesFinal round percentage
Jeremiah Ellison 1,752 2,117 38.6%
Kristel Porter 1,355 2,024 36.9%
Victor Martinez 1,352 Eliminated round 3 -
Suleiman Isse 540 Eliminated round 2 -
Cathy Spann 245 Eliminated round 2 -
Elijah Norris-Holliday 195 Eliminated round 2 -
James "Jim" Seymour 39 Eliminated round 2 -
Undeclared Write-ins 7 Eliminated round 2 -

 

Ballots cast summary
Total votes cast 5,485 Total votes counted in the first round. Does not include undervotes, overvotes, defective, or spoiled ballots.
Tabulation threshold 2,743 The number of votes sufficient for a candidate to be elected. Half of votes cast for office + 1, disregarding fractions.
Undervotes 131 Ballots where the voter did not rank any candidates for the office.

Ranked-choice voting diagram

This diagram shows how votes were redistributed as candidates were defeated. Hover and pause over the bars on the diagram for vote totals.

Jeremiah Ellison
 → Jeremiah Ellison

1,855 votes
All Votes
 → Jeremiah Ellison

1,752 votes
Jeremiah Ellison
 → Jeremiah Ellison

1,752 votes
Kristel Porter
 → Kristel Porter

1,499 votes
All Votes
 → Kristel Porter

1,355 votes
Kristel Porter
 → Kristel Porter

1,355 votes
All Votes
 → Victor Martinez

1,352 votes
Victor Martinez
 → Victor Martinez

1,352 votes
Victor Martinez
 → Exhausted

708 votes
Exhausted
 → Exhausted

636 votes
All Votes
 → Suleiman Isse

540 votes
Victor Martinez
 → Kristel Porter

525 votes
Suleiman Isse
 → Exhausted

445 votes
Victor Martinez
 → Jeremiah Ellison

262 votes
All Votes
 → Cathy Spann

245 votes
All Votes
 → Elijah Norris-Holliday

195 votes
Elijah Norris-Holliday
 → Exhausted

94 votes
Cathy Spann
 → Kristel Porter

78 votes
Cathy Spann
 → Exhausted

75 votes
Cathy Spann
 → Victor Martinez

54 votes
Elijah Norris-Holliday
 → Victor Martinez

48 votes
Suleiman Isse
 → Jeremiah Ellison

41 votes
All Votes
 → James "Jim" Seymour

39 votes
Cathy Spann
 → Jeremiah Ellison

38 votes
Elijah Norris-Holliday
 → Kristel Porter

33 votes
Suleiman Isse
 → Victor Martinez

30 votes
Suleiman Isse
 → Kristel Porter

24 votes
Elijah Norris-Holliday
 → Jeremiah Ellison

20 votes
James "Jim" Seymour
 → Exhausted

17 votes
James "Jim" Seymour
 → Kristel Porter

9 votes
James "Jim" Seymour
 → Victor Martinez

9 votes
All Votes
 → UWI

7 votes
UWI
 → Exhausted

5 votes
James "Jim" Seymour
 → Jeremiah Ellison

4 votes
UWI
 → Victor Martinez

2 votes
All Votes

5,485 votes
All Votes
Jeremiah Ellison

1,752 votes
Jeremiah Ellison
Kristel Porter

1,355 votes
Kristel Porter
Victor Martinez

1,352 votes
Victor Martinez
Suleiman Isse

540 votes
Suleiman Isse
Cathy Spann

245 votes
Cathy Spann
Elijah Norris-Holliday

195 votes
Elijah Norris-Holliday
James "Jim" Seymour

39 votes
James "Jim" Seymour
UWI

7 votes
UWI
Jeremiah Ellison

1,855 votes
Jeremiah Ellison
Kristel Porter

1,499 votes
Kristel Porter
Victor Martinez

1,495 votes
Victor Martinez
Exhausted

636 votes
Exhausted
Jeremiah Ellison

2,117 votes
Jeremiah Ellison
Kristel Porter

2,024 votes
Kristel Porter
Exhausted

1,344 votes
Exhausted

About this diagram

Sankey diagram created with:

  • networkD3: D3 JavaScript Network Graphs from R (R package version 0.4) J.J. Allaire, Christopher Gandrud, Kenton Russell and CJ Yetman (2017)
  • R Core Team - R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria (2017)
  • pandas (Python package) Wes McKinney. Data Structures for Statistical Computing in Python.

Vote totals by round

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