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Survey title:

     American Idol Season 5 Poll, Top 7    

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 235 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Chris Daughtry9 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Chris Daughtry101 voter prefers Chris Daughtry over Taylor Hicks 282 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Elliott Yamin10 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Elliott Yamin53 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Taylor Hicks 260 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Katharine McPhee11 voter has an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Katharine McPhee74 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Taylor Hicks 296 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Paris Bennett9 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Paris Bennett40 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Taylor Hicks 305 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Kellie Pickler10 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Kellie Pickler30 voters prefer Kellie Pickler over Taylor Hicks 316 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Ace Young9 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Ace Young20 voters prefer Ace Young over Taylor Hicks
Second-most popular Chris Daughtry The percent bars above indicate comparisons with the choice to the left 167 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Elliott Yamin35 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Elliott Yamin143 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Chris Daughtry 172 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Katharine McPhee39 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Katharine McPhee134 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Chris Daughtry 221 voter prefers Chris Daughtry over Paris Bennett35 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Paris Bennett89 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Chris Daughtry 241 voter prefers Chris Daughtry over Kellie Pickler37 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Kellie Pickler67 voters prefer Kellie Pickler over Chris Daughtry 264 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Ace Young38 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Ace Young43 voters prefer Ace Young over Chris Daughtry
Third-most popular Elliott Yamin The percent bars above indicate comparisons with the choice to the left 161 voter prefers Elliott Yamin over Katharine McPhee36 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Katharine McPhee148 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Elliott Yamin 209 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Paris Bennett39 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Paris Bennett97 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Elliott Yamin 217 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Kellie Pickler35 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Kellie Pickler93 voters prefer Kellie Pickler over Elliott Yamin 264 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Ace Young39 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Ace Young42 voters prefer Ace Young over Elliott Yamin
Fourth-most popular Katharine McPhee The percent bars above indicate comparisons with the choice to the left 201 voter prefers Katharine McPhee over Paris Bennett38 voters have an equal preference for Katharine McPhee and Paris Bennett106 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Katharine McPhee 225 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Kellie Pickler42 voters have an equal preference for Katharine McPhee and Kellie Pickler78 voters prefer Kellie Pickler over Katharine McPhee 260 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Ace Young38 voters have an equal preference for Katharine McPhee and Ace Young47 voters prefer Ace Young over Katharine McPhee
Fifth-most popular Paris Bennett The percent bars above indicate comparisons with the choice to the left 173 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Kellie Pickler41 voter has an equal preference for Paris Bennett and Kellie Pickler131 voter prefers Kellie Pickler over Paris Bennett 233 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Ace Young41 voter has an equal preference for Paris Bennett and Ace Young71 voter prefers Ace Young over Paris Bennett
Sixth-most popular Kellie Pickler The percent bars above indicate comparisons with the choice to the left 195 voters prefer Kellie Pickler over Ace Young41 voter has an equal preference for Kellie Pickler and Ace Young109 voters prefer Ace Young over Kellie Pickler
Seventh-most popular Ace Young 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

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

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

(61 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 208 62 208 voters marked Taylor Hicks as their first choice
Chris Daughtry 61 18 61 voter marked Chris Daughtry as their first choice
Katharine McPhee 33 10 33 voters marked Katharine McPhee as their first choice
Elliott Yamin 14 4 14 voters marked Elliott Yamin as their first choice
Kellie Pickler 13 4 13 voters marked Kellie Pickler as their first choice
Paris Bennett 9 3 9 voters marked Paris Bennett as their first choice
Ace Young 0 0 0 voters marked Ace Young as their first choice
(7 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: 345
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		 235
235 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Chris Daughtry		 9
9 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Chris Daughtry		 101
101 voter prefers Chris Daughtry over Taylor Hicks
X = Taylor Hicks
Y = Elliott Yamin		 282
282 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Elliott Yamin		 10
10 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Elliott Yamin		 53
53 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Taylor Hicks
X = Taylor Hicks
Y = Katharine McPhee		 260
260 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Katharine McPhee		 11
11 voter has an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Katharine McPhee		 74
74 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Taylor Hicks
X = Taylor Hicks
Y = Paris Bennett		 296
296 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Paris Bennett		 9
9 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Paris Bennett		 40
40 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Taylor Hicks
X = Taylor Hicks
Y = Kellie Pickler		 305
305 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Kellie Pickler		 10
10 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Kellie Pickler		 30
30 voters prefer Kellie Pickler over Taylor Hicks
X = Taylor Hicks
Y = Ace Young		 316
316 voters prefer Taylor Hicks over Ace Young		 9
9 voters have an equal preference for Taylor Hicks and Ace Young		 20
20 voters prefer Ace Young over Taylor Hicks
X = Chris Daughtry
Y = Elliott Yamin		 167
167 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Elliott Yamin		 35
35 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Elliott Yamin		 143
143 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Chris Daughtry
X = Chris Daughtry
Y = Katharine McPhee		 172
172 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Katharine McPhee		 39
39 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Katharine McPhee		 134
134 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Chris Daughtry
X = Chris Daughtry
Y = Paris Bennett		 221
221 voter prefers Chris Daughtry over Paris Bennett		 35
35 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Paris Bennett		 89
89 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Chris Daughtry
X = Chris Daughtry
Y = Kellie Pickler		 241
241 voter prefers Chris Daughtry over Kellie Pickler		 37
37 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Kellie Pickler		 67
67 voters prefer Kellie Pickler over Chris Daughtry
X = Chris Daughtry
Y = Ace Young		 264
264 voters prefer Chris Daughtry over Ace Young		 38
38 voters have an equal preference for Chris Daughtry and Ace Young		 43
43 voters prefer Ace Young over Chris Daughtry
X = Elliott Yamin
Y = Katharine McPhee		 161
161 voter prefers Elliott Yamin over Katharine McPhee		 36
36 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Katharine McPhee		 148
148 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Elliott Yamin
X = Elliott Yamin
Y = Paris Bennett		 209
209 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Paris Bennett		 39
39 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Paris Bennett		 97
97 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Elliott Yamin
X = Elliott Yamin
Y = Kellie Pickler		 217
217 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Kellie Pickler		 35
35 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Kellie Pickler		 93
93 voters prefer Kellie Pickler over Elliott Yamin
X = Elliott Yamin
Y = Ace Young		 264
264 voters prefer Elliott Yamin over Ace Young		 39
39 voters have an equal preference for Elliott Yamin and Ace Young		 42
42 voters prefer Ace Young over Elliott Yamin
X = Katharine McPhee
Y = Paris Bennett		 201
201 voter prefers Katharine McPhee over Paris Bennett		 38
38 voters have an equal preference for Katharine McPhee and Paris Bennett		 106
106 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Katharine McPhee
X = Katharine McPhee
Y = Kellie Pickler		 225
225 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Kellie Pickler		 42
42 voters have an equal preference for Katharine McPhee and Kellie Pickler		 78
78 voters prefer Kellie Pickler over Katharine McPhee
X = Katharine McPhee
Y = Ace Young		 260
260 voters prefer Katharine McPhee over Ace Young		 38
38 voters have an equal preference for Katharine McPhee and Ace Young		 47
47 voters prefer Ace Young over Katharine McPhee
X = Paris Bennett
Y = Kellie Pickler		 173
173 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Kellie Pickler		 41
41 voter has an equal preference for Paris Bennett and Kellie Pickler		 131
131 voter prefers Kellie Pickler over Paris Bennett
X = Paris Bennett
Y = Ace Young		 233
233 voters prefer Paris Bennett over Ace Young		 41
41 voter has an equal preference for Paris Bennett and Ace Young		 71
71 voter prefers Ace Young over Paris Bennett
X = Kellie Pickler
Y = Ace Young		 195
195 voters prefer Kellie Pickler over Ace Young		 41
41 voter has an equal preference for Kellie Pickler and Ace Young		 109
109 voters prefer Ace Young over Kellie Pickler
The highest score (which equals the sum of the bold underlined numbers, plus either tally number in any tied pair of choices) is: 4,897
Number of all possible valid sequences (without ties): 5,040
First sequence:
  1. Katharine McPhee
  2. Kellie Pickler
  3. Paris Bennett
  4. Ace Young
  5. Chris Daughtry
  6. Elliott Yamin
  7. Taylor Hicks
Last sequence:
  1. Taylor Hicks
  2. Elliott Yamin
  3. Chris Daughtry
  4. Ace Young
  5. Paris Bennett
  6. Kellie Pickler
  7. 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&7 x2
  • 1&2&4&5&7,3&6 x1
  • 1&2&4&5,3&6&7 x1
  • 1&5,2&7,4&6,3 x1
  • 1&7,2&5,3&4&6 x1
  • 1&7,2&6,3,4,5 x1
  • 1,2,3,5,6,4,7 x1
  • 1,2,6,7,3,5,4 x1
  • 1,3,5,6,7,4,2 x2
  • 1,3,5,7,2,6,4 x1
  • 1,3,6,2,7,5,4 x1
  • 1,3,6,5,4,7,2 x1
  • 1,4,5,3,2,6,7 x1
  • 1,5,2&3&4&6&7 x1
  • 1,5,2,3,4,6,7 x1
  • 1,5,2,3,7,6,4 x1
  • 1,5,2,6,3,7,4 x1
  • 1,5,2,7,6,3,4 x1
  • 1,5,3,4,7,6,2 x1
  • 1,5,3,6,7,2,4 x1
  • 1,5,3,7,6,4,2 x1
  • 1,5,4,7,3,2,6 x1
  • 1,5,6,7,3,2,4 x1
  • 1,5,6,7,4,2&3 x1
  • 1,5,6,7,4,2,3 x1
  • 1,5,7,6,4,2,3 x1
  • 1,6,5,7,4,3,2 x1
  • 1,6,7,4,5,3,2 x1
  • 1,7,2,3,5,6,4 x1
  • 1,7,2,6,5,3,4 x1
  • 1,7,4,5,6,2,3 x1
  • 1,7,5,2,4,6,3 x1
  • 1,7,5,3,2,4,6 x1
  • 1,7,5,3,4,6,2 x1
  • 1,7,5,3,6,2,4 x1
  • 1,7,5,6,2,3,4 x2
  • 1,7,6,4,5,2,3 x1
  • 2,1&3&4&5&6&7 x2
  • 2,1,5,4,3,6,7 x1
  • 2,1,5,7,3,6,4 x1
  • 2,4,5,6,1,3,7 x2
  • 2,5,1,6,7,4,3 x1
  • 2,5,7,1,4,6,3 x1
  • 2,5,7,6,3,1,4 x1
  • 2,6,5,3,1,7,4 x1
  • 2,7,1,3,5,6,4 x1
  • 2,7,5,1,3,6,4 x1
  • 2,7,5,4,6,1,3 x1
  • 3,1&2&4&5&6&7 x2
  • 3,1,4,7,5,6,2 x1
  • [Remaining ballots not listed]

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