2023 City Council Ward 8 election results

Official winner: Andrea Jenkins

November 7, 2023

Municipal Election

This was a ranked-choice voting (RCV) race. Voters were asked to rank up to three candidates. After two rounds of tabulation, Andrea Jenkins is the winner.

Council Member Ward 8
Candidate First-choice votes Final round votes Final round percentage
Andrea Jenkins 3,491 3,894 48.3%
Soren Stevenson 3,597 3,856 47.8%
Terry White 544 Eliminated round 2 -
Bob Sullentrop 418 Eliminated round 2 -
Undeclared Write-ins 9 Eliminated round 2 -

 

Ballots cast summary
Total votes cast 8,059 Total votes counted in the first round. Does not include undervotes, overvotes, defective, or spoiled ballots.
Tabulation threshold 4,030 The number of votes sufficient for a candidate to be elected. Half of votes cast for office + 1, disregarding fractions.
Undervotes 9 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.

About this diagram

Read a description of the Ward 8 Ranked Choice Voting tabulation 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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