Melbourne City Council Mayoral Elections – how the candidates would “vote”
Candidates in the mayoral elections publish charts of how they’d like you to distribute their preferences, and these charts make interesting reading. I wondered – who’s the most popular candidate among the candidates?
Totalling up the preference votes democratically, you get this:
52 Singer
56 Fowles
56 Ng
58 Bandt
63 McMullin
65 Morgan
67 Crawford
69 Columb
72 Doyle
80 Roberts
88 Toscano
Singer is the most popular among the candidates, Toscano, a “radical activist(s) who have over eighty years experience combating the state, corporate capitalism and bureaucracy”, is the least popular.
Another interesting measure on this one was to see who got the most “2″ votes – i.e. who the candidate would prefer you to vote for, were they not running. Here, Fowles wins with 3 votes out of 11.
If you take this order of popularity and weight the opinion of the candidates based on the popularity of their peers (more popular = more important opinion) hardly anything changes. Probably you wouldn’t expect it to.
The spreadsheet I used to crank this out is here, if you’re interested.
man and i thought i had nothing to do on a friday night. but who are you going to vote for anyway?
and did you rip this off from freakonomics?
Morgan’s website is at http://www.morganclarke.com.au/ — Roberts is the only candidate without a site.