Ballots that ranked a failed candidate as their first, or highest choice, depending on the round, are then reevaluated and counted as first-preference ballots for the next-highest-ranked candidate in that round. ... If a candidate wins an outright majority of first-preference votes (i.e., 50 percent plus one), he or she will be declared the ...

Computing percentage of first place votes: Don: 214/854 = 25.1%. Key: 298/854 = 34.9%. Elle: 342/854 = 40.0%. So in this election, the Democratic voters split their vote over the two Democratic candidates, allowing the Republican candidate Elle to win under the plurality method with 40% of the vote.

A first-preference is a voter's most-preferred candidate. [1][2][3][4] In certain ranked systems such as first preference plurality, ranked-choice voting (RCV), and the single transferable vote, first preferences for a candidate are considered most important and prioritized heavily. This incentivizes pandering to the political base or "core ...

Fianna Fáil polled most first preference vote in each constituen­cy in 2007. Fine Gael managed to poll more first preference only in two: Mayo and Kerry North. In total, Fianna Fáil received 858,565 first preference votes. Fine Gael had 564,428 while Labour received 209,175. Sinn Féin was next with 143,410 followed by the Green Party with ...

Count by count results of the 2007 Irish General Election from The Irish Times. ... % First preference of votes at national level. Party Colour; Party Name % 1st Pref ; Seats; FF 41.56 % 78;

The 2007 Irish general election took place on Thursday, 24 May after the dissolution of the 29th Dáil by the President on 30 April, at the request of the Taoiseach. ... As 2,085,245 first preference votes and invalid votes were cast, this equates to a voter turnout of 67.03%.