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Poll title:

     American Idol Season 6 Poll, Top 10 Males    

Question (number 1) title:

     Who is your favorite, second-favorite, etc., male American Idol singer?    

The most preferred and most representative choice is:

    Blake Lewis

Overall popularity ranking:

     
Popularity Choice VoteFair
ranking
score
Traditional
vote count

(for comparison)
First-most popular Blake Lewis Ranking score is

72

for

Blake Lewis
Second-most popular Chris Sligh Ranking score is

57

for

Chris Sligh
Third-most popular Phil Stacey Ranking score is

46

for

Phil Stacey
Fourth-most popular Chris Richardson Ranking score is

42

for

Chris Richardson
Fifth-most popular Sundance Head Ranking score is

29

for

Sundance Head
Sixth-most popular Jared Cotter Ranking score is

26

for

Jared Cotter
Seventh-most popular Brandon Rogers Ranking score is

18

for

Brandon Rogers
Eighth-most popular Nicholas Pedro Ranking score is

13

for

Nicholas Pedro
Ninth-most popular AJ Tabaldo Ranking score is

7

for

AJ Tabaldo
Tenth-most popular Sanjaya Malakar Ranking score is

0

for

Sanjaya Malakar

VoteFair representation Ranking

  
First-most representative choice is: Blake Lewis
Second-most representative choice is: Phil Stacey

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 in a state legislature, or when an organization pursues a simultaneous second activity in addition to the most popular activity.

Comparison of VoteFair Ranking with other voting methods

  
Voting method Winner
VoteFair Blake Lewis
Instant runoff A winner cannot be identified because, in one of the rounds of voting, there is a tie among the choices with the fewest votes
(The runoff steps did not involve a single choice being eliminated in the first round.)
Majority None of the choices has won a majority ( more than half ) the votes.

(2 ballots ignored because they rank more than one choice as the most-preferred choice.)
Plurality Blake Lewis

(2 ballots ignored because they rank more than one choice as the most-preferred choice.)
Condorcet Blake Lewis
Borda count Blake Lewis

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

Details of plurality results

  
Choice Vote count Percentage
Blake Lewis 33 31
Chris Sligh 16 15
Phil Stacey 13 12
Chris Richardson 12 11
Jared Cotter 11 10
Sundance Head 7 6
Sanjaya Malakar 4 4
Nicholas Pedro 4 4
Brandon Rogers 4 4
AJ Tabaldo 4 4
(2 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: 110
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 = Blake Lewis
Y = Chris Sligh
70
70 voters prefer

Blake Lewis

over

Chris Sligh
9
9 voters have an equal preference for

Blake Lewis

and

Chris Sligh
31
31 voter prefers

Chris Sligh

over

Blake Lewis
X = Blake Lewis
Y = Phil Stacey
69
69 voters prefer

Blake Lewis

over

Phil Stacey
8
8 voters have an equal preference for

Blake Lewis

and

Phil Stacey
33
33 voters prefer

Phil Stacey

over

Blake Lewis
X = Blake Lewis
Y = Chris Richardson
73
73 voters prefer

Blake Lewis

over

Chris Richardson
11
11 voter has an equal preference for

Blake Lewis

and

Chris Richardson
26
26 voters prefer

Chris Richardson

over

Blake Lewis
X = Blake Lewis
Y = Sundance Head
78
78 voters prefer

Blake Lewis

over

Sundance Head
8
8 voters have an equal preference for

Blake Lewis

and

Sundance Head
24
24 voters prefer

Sundance Head

over

Blake Lewis
X = Blake Lewis
Y = Jared Cotter
78
78 voters prefer

Blake Lewis

over

Jared Cotter
6
6 voters have an equal preference for

Blake Lewis

and

Jared Cotter
26
26 voters prefer

Jared Cotter

over

Blake Lewis
X = Blake Lewis
Y = Brandon Rogers
86
86 voters prefer

Blake Lewis

over

Brandon Rogers
11
11 voter has an equal preference for

Blake Lewis

and

Brandon Rogers
13
13 voters prefer

Brandon Rogers

over

Blake Lewis
X = Blake Lewis
Y = Nicholas Pedro
83
83 voters prefer

Blake Lewis

over

Nicholas Pedro
9
9 voters have an equal preference for

Blake Lewis

and

Nicholas Pedro
18
18 voters prefer

Nicholas Pedro

over

Blake Lewis
X = Blake Lewis
Y = AJ Tabaldo
89
89 voters prefer

Blake Lewis

over

AJ Tabaldo
11
11 voter has an equal preference for

Blake Lewis

and

AJ Tabaldo
10
10 voters prefer

AJ Tabaldo

over

Blake Lewis
X = Blake Lewis
Y = Sanjaya Malakar
89
89 voters prefer

Blake Lewis

over

Sanjaya Malakar
10
10 voters have an equal preference for

Blake Lewis

and

Sanjaya Malakar
11
11 voter prefers

Sanjaya Malakar

over

Blake Lewis
X = Chris Sligh
Y = Phil Stacey
52
52 voters prefer

Chris Sligh

over

Phil Stacey
15
15 voters have an equal preference for

Chris Sligh

and

Phil Stacey
43
43 voters prefer

Phil Stacey

over

Chris Sligh
X = Chris Sligh
Y = Chris Richardson
56
56 voters prefer

Chris Sligh

over

Chris Richardson
14
14 voters have an equal preference for

Chris Sligh

and

Chris Richardson
40
40 voters prefer

Chris Richardson

over

Chris Sligh
X = Chris Sligh
Y = Sundance Head
67
67 voters prefer

Chris Sligh

over

Sundance Head
13
13 voters have an equal preference for

Chris Sligh

and

Sundance Head
30
30 voters prefer

Sundance Head

over

Chris Sligh
X = Chris Sligh
Y = Jared Cotter
72
72 voters prefer

Chris Sligh

over

Jared Cotter
9
9 voters have an equal preference for

Chris Sligh

and

Jared Cotter
29
29 voters prefer

Jared Cotter

over

Chris Sligh
X = Chris Sligh
Y = Brandon Rogers
76
76 voters prefer

Chris Sligh

over

Brandon Rogers
16
16 voters have an equal preference for

Chris Sligh

and

Brandon Rogers
18
18 voters prefer

Brandon Rogers

over

Chris Sligh
X = Chris Sligh
Y = Nicholas Pedro
76
76 voters prefer

Chris Sligh

over

Nicholas Pedro
14
14 voters have an equal preference for

Chris Sligh

and

Nicholas Pedro
20
20 voters prefer

Nicholas Pedro

over

Chris Sligh
X = Chris Sligh
Y = AJ Tabaldo
79
79 voters prefer

Chris Sligh

over

AJ Tabaldo
15
15 voters have an equal preference for

Chris Sligh

and

AJ Tabaldo
16
16 voters prefer

AJ Tabaldo

over

Chris Sligh
X = Chris Sligh
Y = Sanjaya Malakar
82
82 voters prefer

Chris Sligh

over

Sanjaya Malakar
14
14 voters have an equal preference for

Chris Sligh

and

Sanjaya Malakar
14
14 voters prefer

Sanjaya Malakar

over

Chris Sligh
X = Phil Stacey
Y = Chris Richardson
48
48 voters prefer

Phil Stacey

over

Chris Richardson
15
15 voters have an equal preference for

Phil Stacey

and

Chris Richardson
47
47 voters prefer

Chris Richardson

over

Phil Stacey
X = Phil Stacey
Y = Sundance Head
60
60 voters prefer

Phil Stacey

over

Sundance Head
14
14 voters have an equal preference for

Phil Stacey

and

Sundance Head
36
36 voters prefer

Sundance Head

over

Phil Stacey
X = Phil Stacey
Y = Jared Cotter
63
63 voters prefer

Phil Stacey

over

Jared Cotter
8
8 voters have an equal preference for

Phil Stacey

and

Jared Cotter
39
39 voters prefer

Jared Cotter

over

Phil Stacey
X = Phil Stacey
Y = Brandon Rogers
66
66 voters prefer

Phil Stacey

over

Brandon Rogers
15
15 voters have an equal preference for

Phil Stacey

and

Brandon Rogers
29
29 voters prefer

Brandon Rogers

over

Phil Stacey
X = Phil Stacey
Y = Nicholas Pedro
68
68 voters prefer

Phil Stacey

over

Nicholas Pedro
16
16 voters have an equal preference for

Phil Stacey

and

Nicholas Pedro
26
26 voters prefer

Nicholas Pedro

over

Phil Stacey
X = Phil Stacey
Y = AJ Tabaldo
73
73 voters prefer

Phil Stacey

over

AJ Tabaldo
15
15 voters have an equal preference for

Phil Stacey

and

AJ Tabaldo
22
22 voters prefer

AJ Tabaldo

over

Phil Stacey
X = Phil Stacey
Y = Sanjaya Malakar
81
81 voter prefers

Phil Stacey

over

Sanjaya Malakar
15
15 voters have an equal preference for

Phil Stacey

and

Sanjaya Malakar
14
14 voters prefer

Sanjaya Malakar

over

Phil Stacey
X = Chris Richardson
Y = Sundance Head
61
61 voter prefers

Chris Richardson

over

Sundance Head
12
12 voters have an equal preference for

Chris Richardson

and

Sundance Head
37
37 voters prefer

Sundance Head

over

Chris Richardson
X = Chris Richardson
Y = Jared Cotter
62
62 voters prefer

Chris Richardson

over

Jared Cotter
9
9 voters have an equal preference for

Chris Richardson

and

Jared Cotter
39
39 voters prefer

Jared Cotter

over

Chris Richardson
X = Chris Richardson
Y = Brandon Rogers
66
66 voters prefer

Chris Richardson

over

Brandon Rogers
16
16 voters have an equal preference for

Chris Richardson

and

Brandon Rogers
28
28 voters prefer

Brandon Rogers

over

Chris Richardson
X = Chris Richardson
Y = Nicholas Pedro
68
68 voters prefer

Chris Richardson

over

Nicholas Pedro
16
16 voters have an equal preference for

Chris Richardson

and

Nicholas Pedro
26
26 voters prefer

Nicholas Pedro

over

Chris Richardson
X = Chris Richardson
Y = AJ Tabaldo
76
76 voters prefer

Chris Richardson

over

AJ Tabaldo
17
17 voters have an equal preference for

Chris Richardson

and

AJ Tabaldo
17
17 voters prefer

AJ Tabaldo

over

Chris Richardson
X = Chris Richardson
Y = Sanjaya Malakar
82
82 voters prefer

Chris Richardson

over

Sanjaya Malakar
15
15 voters have an equal preference for

Chris Richardson

and

Sanjaya Malakar
13
13 voters prefer

Sanjaya Malakar

over

Chris Richardson
X = Sundance Head
Y = Jared Cotter
54
54 voters prefer

Sundance Head

over

Jared Cotter
6
6 voters have an equal preference for

Sundance Head

and

Jared Cotter
50
50 voters prefer

Jared Cotter

over

Sundance Head
X = Sundance Head
Y = Brandon Rogers
55
55 voters prefer

Sundance Head

over

Brandon Rogers
13
13 voters have an equal preference for

Sundance Head

and

Brandon Rogers
42
42 voters prefer

Brandon Rogers

over

Sundance Head
X = Sundance Head
Y = Nicholas Pedro
56
56 voters prefer

Sundance Head

over

Nicholas Pedro
13
13 voters have an equal preference for

Sundance Head

and

Nicholas Pedro
41
41 voter prefers

Nicholas Pedro

over

Sundance Head
X = Sundance Head
Y = AJ Tabaldo
56
56 voters prefer

Sundance Head

over

AJ Tabaldo
14
14 voters have an equal preference for

Sundance Head

and

AJ Tabaldo
40
40 voters prefer

AJ Tabaldo

over

Sundance Head
X = Sundance Head
Y = Sanjaya Malakar
68
68 voters prefer

Sundance Head

over

Sanjaya Malakar
16
16 voters have an equal preference for

Sundance Head

and

Sanjaya Malakar
26
26 voters prefer

Sanjaya Malakar

over

Sundance Head
X = Jared Cotter
Y = Brandon Rogers
49
49 voters prefer

Jared Cotter

over

Brandon Rogers
13
13 voters have an equal preference for

Jared Cotter

and

Brandon Rogers
48
48 voters prefer

Brandon Rogers

over

Jared Cotter
X = Jared Cotter
Y = Nicholas Pedro
63
63 voters prefer

Jared Cotter

over

Nicholas Pedro
11
11 voter has an equal preference for

Jared Cotter

and

Nicholas Pedro
36
36 voters prefer

Nicholas Pedro

over

Jared Cotter
X = Jared Cotter
Y = AJ Tabaldo
64
64 voters prefer

Jared Cotter

over

AJ Tabaldo
12
12 voters have an equal preference for

Jared Cotter

and

AJ Tabaldo
34
34 voters prefer

AJ Tabaldo

over

Jared Cotter
X = Jared Cotter
Y = Sanjaya Malakar
84
84 voters prefer

Jared Cotter

over

Sanjaya Malakar
10
10 voters have an equal preference for

Jared Cotter

and

Sanjaya Malakar
16
16 voters prefer

Sanjaya Malakar

over

Jared Cotter
X = Brandon Rogers
Y = Nicholas Pedro
54
54 voters prefer

Brandon Rogers

over

Nicholas Pedro
18
18 voters have an equal preference for

Brandon Rogers

and

Nicholas Pedro
38
38 voters prefer

Nicholas Pedro

over

Brandon Rogers
X = Brandon Rogers
Y = AJ Tabaldo
53
53 voters prefer

Brandon Rogers

over

AJ Tabaldo
19
19 voters have an equal preference for

Brandon Rogers

and

AJ Tabaldo
38
38 voters prefer

AJ Tabaldo

over

Brandon Rogers
X = Brandon Rogers
Y = Sanjaya Malakar
72
72 voters prefer

Brandon Rogers

over

Sanjaya Malakar
17
17 voters have an equal preference for

Brandon Rogers

and

Sanjaya Malakar
21
21 voter prefers

Sanjaya Malakar

over

Brandon Rogers
X = Nicholas Pedro
Y = AJ Tabaldo
51
51 voter prefers

Nicholas Pedro

over

AJ Tabaldo
20
20 voters have an equal preference for

Nicholas Pedro

and

AJ Tabaldo
39
39 voters prefer

AJ Tabaldo

over

Nicholas Pedro
X = Nicholas Pedro
Y = Sanjaya Malakar
73
73 voters prefer

Nicholas Pedro

over

Sanjaya Malakar
18
18 voters have an equal preference for

Nicholas Pedro

and

Sanjaya Malakar
19
19 voters prefer

Sanjaya Malakar

over

Nicholas Pedro
X = AJ Tabaldo
Y = Sanjaya Malakar
65
65 voters prefer

AJ Tabaldo

over

Sanjaya Malakar
19
19 voters have an equal preference for

AJ Tabaldo

and

Sanjaya Malakar
26
26 voters prefer

Sanjaya Malakar

over

AJ Tabaldo
The highest score (which equals the sum of the bold underlined numbers, plus either tally number in any tied pair of choices) is: 3,066
Number of all possible valid sequences (without ties): 3,628,800
First sequence:
  1. AJ Tabaldo
  2. Blake Lewis
  3. Brandon Rogers
  4. Chris Richardson
  5. Chris Sligh
  6. Jared Cotter
  7. Nicholas Pedro
  8. Phil Stacey
  9. Sanjaya Malakar
  10. Sundance Head
Last sequence:
  1. Sundance Head
  2. Sanjaya Malakar
  3. Phil Stacey
  4. Nicholas Pedro
  5. Jared Cotter
  6. Chris Sligh
  7. Chris Richardson
  8. Brandon Rogers
  9. Blake Lewis
  10. AJ Tabaldo
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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.)

  • 1,2,5,8,4,3,6,7,10,9 x1
  • 1,4,2&3&5&6&7&8&9&10 x1
  • 1,7,2,5,6,3,8,4,9,10 x1
  • 1,8,5,4,2,3,10,7,6,9 x1
  • 10,2,4,5,3,7,6,8,1,9 x1
  • 10,2,5,4,3,8,7,6,1,9 x1
  • 10,6,3,8,7,2&4,5,1,9 x1
  • 10,7,2,1,3,4,5,6,8,9 x1
  • 10,8,5,2,4,3,6,1,9,7 x1
  • 10,8,6,1,7,5,3,2,4,9 x1
  • 10,9,1&2&3&4&5&6&7&8 x1
  • 2,1&3&4&5&6&7&8&9&10 x3
  • 2,1,8,10,5,4,7,6,9,3 x1
  • 2,10,5,3,8,4,6,7,9,1 x1
  • 2,10,5,4,8,6,3,1,7,9 x1
  • 2,10,7,6,5,4,3,8,1,9 x1
  • 2,3&5&6,1&4&7&8&9,10 x1
  • 2,3,5,1,6,7,8,9,10,4 x1
  • 2,4,1,3,5,6,7,8,10,9 x1
  • 2,4,5&8,3,10,6,1,7,9 x1
  • 2,4,5,10,1,3,6,8,7,9 x1
  • 2,4,5,10,1,8,6,3,7,9 x1
  • 2,4,5,10,8,1,7,3,6,9 x1
  • 2,4,5,6,7,9,8,1,3,10 x1
  • 2,4,5,6,8,3,7,1,10,9 x1
  • 2,4,5,8,10,3,6,7,9,1 x1
  • 2,4,6,5,7,8,9,1,3,10 x1
  • 2,4,8,5,6,10,3,9,7,1 x1
  • 2,5,10,3,7,6,8,4,1,9 x1
  • 2,5,4,1,10,8,7,6,3,9 x1
  • 2,5,4,10,8,1,3,6,7,9 x1
  • 2,5,4,3,1,10,7,6,9,8 x1
  • 2,5,4,3,7,1,8,6,9,10 x1
  • 2,5,4,8,3,1,6,9,7,10 x1
  • 2,5,8,7,4,3,9,6,1,10 x1
  • 2,8,10,5,9,1&3&4&6&7 x1
  • 2,8,3,5,4,10,6,7,1,9 x1
  • 2,8,4,6,5,1,7,3,10,9 x1
  • 2,8,4,7,5,3,1,10,6,9 x1
  • 2,8,5,4,3,1,7,6,10,9 x1
  • 2,8,5,4,7,1,6,3,9,10 x1
  • 2,8,5,7,4,1,6,3,9,10 x1
  • 3,2,4,8,10,5,1,6,9,7 x1
  • 3,2,5,6,10,4,1,7,8,9 x1
  • 3,6,4,2,8,7,5,1,10,9 x1
  • 3,6,8,2,1,7,4,5,10,9 x1
  • 4,10,8,5,2,1,3,6,7,9 x1
  • 4,2,10,5,8,7,1,6,3,9 x1
  • 4,2,3,8,6,10,1,5,7,9 x1
  • 4,2,5,1,3,6,8,7,10,9 x1
  • [Remaining ballots not listed]

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