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VoteFair Ranking Results calculated at  www.VoteFair.org 2006-April-26  18:44


Survey title:

     American Idol Season 5 Poll, Top 6    

Question (number 1) title:

     Who is your favorite American Idol singer?    



The most preferred and most representative choice is:

    Taylor Hicks

Overall popularity ranking:

     
Popularity Choice Graphic summary of tally information
(details in mouse-over ALT text)
First-most popular Taylor Hicks 343 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Chris Daughtry16 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Chris Daughtry143 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Taylor Hicks 396 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Elliott Yamin11 voter has an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Elliott Yamin95 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Taylor Hicks 367 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Katharine McPhee15 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Katharine McPhee120 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Taylor Hicks 438 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Paris Bennett16 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Paris Bennett48 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Taylor Hicks 430 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Kellie Pickler12 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Kellie Pickler60 voters prefer Kellie Pickler over Taylor Hicks
Second-most popular Chris Daughtry The percent bars above indicate comparisons with the choice to the left 231 voter prefers Chris Daughtry over Elliott Yamin41 voter has an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Elliott Yamin230 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Chris Daughtry 284 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Katharine McPhee47 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Katharine McPhee171 voter prefers Katharine McPhee over Chris Daughtry 344 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Paris Bennett50 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Paris Bennett108 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Chris Daughtry 384 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Kellie Pickler43 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Kellie Pickler75 voters prefer Kellie Pickler over Chris Daughtry
Third-most popular Elliott Yamin The percent bars above indicate comparisons with the choice to the left 290 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Katharine McPhee40 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Katharine McPhee172 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Elliott Yamin 379 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Paris Bennett44 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Paris Bennett79 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Elliott Yamin 377 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Kellie Pickler37 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Kellie Pickler88 voters prefer Kellie Pickler over Elliott Yamin
Fourth-most popular Katharine McPhee The percent bars above indicate comparisons with the choice to the left 289 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Paris Bennett56 voters have an equal preference for Katharine McPhee and Paris Bennett157 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Katharine McPhee 366 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Kellie Pickler51 voter has an equal preference for Katharine McPhee and Kellie Pickler85 voters prefer Kellie Pickler over Katharine McPhee
Fifth-most popular Paris Bennett The percent bars above indicate comparisons with the choice to the left 309 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Kellie Pickler52 voters have an equal preference for Paris Bennett and Kellie Pickler141 voter prefers Kellie Pickler over Paris Bennett
Sixth-most popular Kellie Pickler The percent bars above indicate comparisons with the choice to the left



VoteFair representation Ranking

  
First-most representative choice is: Taylor Hicks
Second-most representative choice is: Chris Daughtry
Additional levels of representation were not calculated.
(There may be too many questions, too many choices for this question, or too many votes, or no further calculations were requested.)

VoteFair representation ranking results should be used when more than one choice is to be selected. Why? When there are 100 voters, 51 of them can choose the first winner, so the other 49 voters deserve extra influence in choosing the second winner (instead of letting the 51 voters also choose the second winner). When should representation results be used? When a second candidate is elected to a second equivalent seat on a board of directors, or when an organization pursues a second activity in addition to the most popular activity.


Comparison of VoteFair Ranking with other voting methods

  
Voting method Winner
VoteFair Taylor Hicks
Instant runoff Taylor Hicks
Majority Taylor Hicks

(4 ballots ignored because they rank more than one choice as the most-preferred choice.)
Plurality Taylor Hicks

(4 ballots ignored because they rank more than one choice as the most-preferred choice.)
Condorcet Taylor Hicks
Borda count Taylor Hicks

(64 ballots ignored because they rank more than one choice at the same preference level.)

Details of plurality results
  
Choice Vote count Percentage Percentage bar
Taylor Hicks 297 60 297 voters marked Taylor Hicks as their first choice
Chris Daughtry 94 19 94 voters marked Chris Daughtry as their first choice
Katharine McPhee 50 10 50 voters marked Katharine McPhee as their first choice
Elliott Yamin 29 6 29 voters marked Elliott Yamin as their first choice
Kellie Pickler 21 4 21 voter marked Kellie Pickler as their first choice
Paris Bennett 7 1 7 voters marked Paris Bennett as their first choice
(4 ballots ignored in plurality counting because they rank more than one choice as the most-preferred choice.)
Notice that the choice with the most plurality votes is not necessarily the most popular. Similarly the choice with the fewest plurality votes is not necessarily the least popular.

Data and Calculation Summary
Number of votes: 502
The following tally table summarizes all the preferences of all the voters. The bold underlined numbers are the ones that apply to the winning sequence.
  
All possible pairs of choice names Number of votes with indicated preference
Prefer X over Y Equal preference Prefer Y over X
X = Taylor Hicks
Y = Chris Daughtry		 343
343 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Chris Daughtry		 16
16 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Chris Daughtry		 143
143 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Taylor Hicks
X = Taylor Hicks
Y = Elliott Yamin		 396
396 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Elliott Yamin		 11
11 voter has an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Elliott Yamin		 95
95 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Taylor Hicks
X = Taylor Hicks
Y = Katharine McPhee		 367
367 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Katharine McPhee		 15
15 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Katharine McPhee		 120
120 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Taylor Hicks
X = Taylor Hicks
Y = Paris Bennett		 438
438 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Paris Bennett		 16
16 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Paris Bennett		 48
48 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Taylor Hicks
X = Taylor Hicks
Y = Kellie Pickler		 430
430 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Kellie Pickler		 12
12 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Kellie Pickler		 60
60 voters prefer Kellie Pickler over Taylor Hicks
X = Chris Daughtry
Y = Elliott Yamin		 231
231 voter prefers Chris Daughtry over Elliott Yamin		 41
41 voter has an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Elliott Yamin		 230
230 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Chris Daughtry
X = Chris Daughtry
Y = Katharine McPhee		 284
284 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Katharine McPhee		 47
47 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Katharine McPhee		 171
171 voter prefers Katharine McPhee over Chris Daughtry
X = Chris Daughtry
Y = Paris Bennett		 344
344 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Paris Bennett		 50
50 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Paris Bennett		 108
108 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Chris Daughtry
X = Chris Daughtry
Y = Kellie Pickler		 384
384 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Kellie Pickler		 43
43 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Kellie Pickler		 75
75 voters prefer Kellie Pickler over Chris Daughtry
X = Elliott Yamin
Y = Katharine McPhee		 290
290 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Katharine McPhee		 40
40 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Katharine McPhee		 172
172 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Elliott Yamin
X = Elliott Yamin
Y = Paris Bennett		 379
379 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Paris Bennett		 44
44 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Paris Bennett		 79
79 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Elliott Yamin
X = Elliott Yamin
Y = Kellie Pickler		 377
377 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Kellie Pickler		 37
37 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Kellie Pickler		 88
88 voters prefer Kellie Pickler over Elliott Yamin
X = Katharine McPhee
Y = Paris Bennett		 289
289 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Paris Bennett		 56
56 voters have an equal preference for Katharine McPhee and Paris Bennett		 157
157 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Katharine McPhee
X = Katharine McPhee
Y = Kellie Pickler		 366
366 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Kellie Pickler		 51
51 voter has an equal preference for Katharine McPhee and Kellie Pickler		 85
85 voters prefer Kellie Pickler over Katharine McPhee
X = Paris Bennett
Y = Kellie Pickler		 309
309 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Kellie Pickler		 52
52 voters have an equal preference for Paris Bennett and Kellie Pickler		 141
141 voter prefers Kellie Pickler over Paris Bennett
The highest score (which equals the sum of the bold underlined numbers, plus either tally number in any tied pair of choices) is: 5,227
Number of all possible valid sequences (without ties): 720
First sequence:
  1. Katharine McPhee
  2. Kellie Pickler
  3. Paris Bennett
  4. Chris Daughtry
  5. Elliott Yamin
  6. Taylor Hicks
Last sequence:
  1. Taylor Hicks
  2. Elliott Yamin
  3. Chris Daughtry
  4. Paris Bennett
  5. Kellie Pickler
  6. Katharine McPhee
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Detailed ballot information
(The numbers indicate the choices
as listed in "First sequence" above,
a comma indicates the next lower preference level,
"&" joins choices at the same preference level,
and "x" precedes the vote count.)

  • 1&2&3&4&5&6 x3
  • 1&4&6,3&5,2 x1
  • 1,2&3&4&5&6 x2
  • 1,2,3,4,5,6 x1
  • 1,2,4,6,5,3 x2
  • 1,2,5,6,4,3 x1
  • 1,2,6,5,3,4 x2
  • 1,2,6,5,4,3 x2
  • 1,3,2,5,4,6 x1
  • 1,3,6,2,4,5 x1
  • 1,3,6,4,2,5 x1
  • 1,4,2,5,6,3 x1
  • 1,4,2,6,3,5 x1
  • 1,4,5,2,3,6 x1
  • 1,4,5,2,6,3 x1
  • 1,4,5,3,6,2 x2
  • 1,4,5,6,2,3 x2
  • 1,4,5,6,3,2 x3
  • 1,4,6,2,5,3 x2
  • 1,4,6,3,5,2 x1
  • 1,4,6,5,2,3 x2
  • 1,4,6,5,3,2 x2
  • 1,5,2,4,6,3 x1
  • 1,5,3,4,6,2 x1
  • 1,5,4,6,3,2 x1
  • 1,5,6,2&3&4 x1
  • 1,5,6,4,2,3 x1
  • 1,5,6,4,3,2 x3
  • 1,6,2,3,4,5 x1
  • 1,6,4,2,3,5 x2
  • 1,6,4,2,5,3 x2
  • 1,6,4,3,5,2 x2
  • 1,6,4,5,3,2 x1
  • 1,6,5,2,3,4 x1
  • 1,6,5,2,4,3 x1
  • 1,6,5,4,2,3 x1
  • 2,1&3&4&5&6 x4
  • 2,1,4,5,6,3 x1
  • 2,1,4,6,5,3 x3
  • 2,1,6,3,4,5 x1
  • 2,3,4,5,6,1 x1
  • 2,4,3,6,5,1 x1
  • 2,4,5,3,6,1 x1
  • 2,5,1,3,6,4 x1
  • 2,6,1&3&4&5 x1
  • 2,6,4,1,5,3 x2
  • 2,6,4,3,5,1 x1
  • 2,6,4,5,1,3 x1
  • 2,6,4,5,3,1 x1
  • 2,6,5,3,4,1 x1
  • [Remaining ballots not listed]

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