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Poll title:

     American Idol Season 5 Poll, Top 5    

Question (number 1) title:

     Please rank the American Idol singers:    



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 623 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Elliott Yamin33 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Elliott Yamin405 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Taylor Hicks 651 voter prefers Taylor Hicks over Chris Daughtry44 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Chris Daughtry366 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Taylor Hicks 699 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Katharine McPhee30 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Katharine McPhee332 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Taylor Hicks 852 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Paris Bennett47 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Paris Bennett162 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Taylor Hicks
Second-most popular Elliott Yamin The percent bars above indicate comparisons with the choice to the left 627 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Chris Daughtry62 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Chris Daughtry372 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Elliott Yamin 660 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Katharine McPhee49 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Katharine McPhee352 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Elliott Yamin 852 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Paris Bennett63 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Paris Bennett146 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Elliott Yamin
Third-most popular Chris Daughtry The percent bars above indicate comparisons with the choice to the left 574 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Katharine McPhee67 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Katharine McPhee420 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Chris Daughtry 724 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Paris Bennett77 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Paris Bennett260 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Chris Daughtry
Fourth-most popular Katharine McPhee The percent bars above indicate comparisons with the choice to the left 636 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Paris Bennett66 voters have an equal preference for Katharine McPhee and Paris Bennett359 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Katharine McPhee
Fifth-most popular Paris Bennett 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: Elliott Yamin
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
(9 ballots at least partially ignored because they include an equal preference at a significant step in the runoff process.)
(Choice eliminated in the first round: Paris Bennett)
Majority None of the choices has won a majority ( more than half ) the votes.

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

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

(113 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 488 47 488 voters marked Taylor Hicks as their first choice
Elliott Yamin 238 23 238 voters marked Elliott Yamin as their first choice
Katharine McPhee 179 17 179 voters marked Katharine McPhee as their first choice
Chris Daughtry 133 13 133 voters marked Chris Daughtry as their first choice
Paris Bennett 10 1 10 voters marked Paris Bennett as their first choice
(13 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: 1,061
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 = Elliott Yamin		 623
623 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Elliott Yamin		 33
33 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Elliott Yamin		 405
405 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Taylor Hicks
X = Taylor Hicks
Y = Chris Daughtry		 651
651 voter prefers Taylor Hicks over Chris Daughtry		 44
44 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Chris Daughtry		 366
366 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Taylor Hicks
X = Taylor Hicks
Y = Katharine McPhee		 699
699 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Katharine McPhee		 30
30 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Katharine McPhee		 332
332 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Taylor Hicks
X = Taylor Hicks
Y = Paris Bennett		 852
852 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Paris Bennett		 47
47 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Paris Bennett		 162
162 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Taylor Hicks
X = Elliott Yamin
Y = Chris Daughtry		 627
627 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Chris Daughtry		 62
62 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Chris Daughtry		 372
372 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Elliott Yamin
X = Elliott Yamin
Y = Katharine McPhee		 660
660 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Katharine McPhee		 49
49 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Katharine McPhee		 352
352 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Elliott Yamin
X = Elliott Yamin
Y = Paris Bennett		 852
852 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Paris Bennett		 63
63 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Paris Bennett		 146
146 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Elliott Yamin
X = Chris Daughtry
Y = Katharine McPhee		 574
574 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Katharine McPhee		 67
67 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Katharine McPhee		 420
420 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Chris Daughtry
X = Chris Daughtry
Y = Paris Bennett		 724
724 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Paris Bennett		 77
77 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Paris Bennett		 260
260 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Chris Daughtry
X = Katharine McPhee
Y = Paris Bennett		 636
636 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Paris Bennett		 66
66 voters have an equal preference for Katharine McPhee and Paris Bennett		 359
359 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Katharine McPhee
The highest score (which equals the sum of the bold underlined numbers, plus either tally number in any tied pair of choices) is: 6,898
Number of all possible valid sequences (without ties): 120
First sequence:
  1. Katharine McPhee
  2. Paris Bennett
  3. Chris Daughtry
  4. Elliott Yamin
  5. Taylor Hicks
Last sequence:
  1. Taylor Hicks
  2. Elliott Yamin
  3. Chris Daughtry
  4. Paris Bennett
  5. 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 x6
  • 1&2&3&5,4 x1
  • 1&3,5,4,2 x1
  • 1&5,2,3&4 x1
  • 1,2&3&4&5 x14
  • 1,2,3,4,5 x6
  • 1,2,3,5,4 x5
  • 1,2,4,3,5 x6
  • 1,2,4,5,3 x2
  • 1,2,5,3,4 x4
  • 1,2,5,4,3 x4
  • 1,3,2&4&5 x1
  • 1,3,2,4,5 x10
  • 1,3,2,5,4 x3
  • 1,3,4,2&5 x1
  • 1,3,4,2,5 x17
  • 1,3,4,5,2 x18
  • 1,3,5,2,4 x4
  • 1,3,5,4,2 x16
  • 1,4,2&3&5 x2
  • 1,4,2,3,5 x3
  • 1,4,3,2,5 x8
  • 1,4,3,5,2 x16
  • 1,4,5,2,3 x6
  • 1,4,5,3,2 x11
  • 1,5,2,3,4 x1
  • 1,5,2,4,3 x1
  • 1,5,3,2,4 x7
  • 1,5,3,4,2 x5
  • 1,5,4,2,3 x3
  • 1,5,4,3,2 x5
  • 2&3&4&5,1 x1
  • 2&3,1,5,4 x1
  • 2,1&3&4&5 x1
  • 2,1,3,5,4 x2
  • 2,1,4,3,5 x1
  • 2,1,4,5,3 x1
  • 2,3&4&5,1 x1
  • 2,3,1,4,5 x1
  • 2,3,4,1,5 x1
  • 2,3,5,1,4 x1
  • 2,5,3,1,4 x1
  • 3,1&2&4&5 x5
  • 3,1,2,4,5 x4
  • 3,1,2,5,4 x1
  • 3,1,4,2,5 x4
  • 3,1,4,5,2 x9
  • 3,1,5,2,4 x5
  • 3,1,5,4,2 x23
  • 3,2,1,4,5 x1
  • [Remaining ballots not listed]

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