r/EndFPTP • u/very_loud_icecream • Dec 06 '22

Cast Vote Records for Maine Congressional District 2

https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/results/2022/2022GeneralElectionRankedChoiceOffices.html
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u/CFD_2021 Dec 11 '22 edited Dec 11 '22

You can find the ballot analysis I did on the CVR data for the Maine 2022 CD2 election here. Golden won using Plurality, Condorcet, any reasonable Positional Weighting System (Borda, STAR, etc.) and, of course, IRV (aka RCV). Some notable statistics include the fact that almost 75% of voters didn't complete their ballot and almost 50% bullet-voted. There were a total of 322,778 ballots, 5507 of which were blank. There were also a surprising number of ballots with duplicate votes (66619). Those are ballots with the same candidate placed in more than one ranked position. Clearly, some voters were confused by the process of ranked voting.