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Minneapolis mayoral election final results
Nov. 7th, 2013 10:39 pmSo the final percentages are: Betsy Hodges 48.95%, Mark Andrew 31.44%, exhausted ballots 19.61%.
A clean win, but not the guaranteed over 50% win that some people were promising even though we were only planning to count three choices for each voter.
Exhausted ballots in this case means everyone who voted for at least one person for mayor, but picked neither Hodges nor Andrew with any of their three choices. In an election in which as many rankings are allowed as there are candidates, "exhausted ballots" means ballots cast by people who didn't finish filling out the ballot before casting it. I know it's not really why they call them that, but it's funny to think of people getting exhausted with representative democracy before they get to the bottom of the ballot, and calling it a day.
Now I'm curious to see how Cano and Yang will be faring tomorrow in the final count of the City Council votes. There's one other Council election with a non-obvious outcome, but it's in a neighborhood that I'm much less familiar with than Cano's and Yang's, so I hadn't been following it.
A clean win, but not the guaranteed over 50% win that some people were promising even though we were only planning to count three choices for each voter.
Exhausted ballots in this case means everyone who voted for at least one person for mayor, but picked neither Hodges nor Andrew with any of their three choices. In an election in which as many rankings are allowed as there are candidates, "exhausted ballots" means ballots cast by people who didn't finish filling out the ballot before casting it. I know it's not really why they call them that, but it's funny to think of people getting exhausted with representative democracy before they get to the bottom of the ballot, and calling it a day.
Now I'm curious to see how Cano and Yang will be faring tomorrow in the final count of the City Council votes. There's one other Council election with a non-obvious outcome, but it's in a neighborhood that I'm much less familiar with than Cano's and Yang's, so I hadn't been following it.
