The means of determining whether an individual voter is British was based on information from the voters' user pages and/or from personal experience of co-editing with them. It is therefore imprecise.
The purpose of this page is to gain insight into voting patterns among voters to further understand the issues involved. It is explicitly not to draw conclusions about the bias or otherwise of certain options from any purported national viewpoint. Nor is it to contrast purported national viewpoints for the purpose of inferring bias.
Other editors have conducted similar tallies, but counting first preferences only, and arrived at conclusions such as "y% voted 'for Y', therefore x% voted 'against Y'". Because the poll is being conducted using a preferential ballot, such summaries are extremely flawed. For example, since there are six options, if each option was equally supported then each would receive 16% of first-preference votes. It would be incorrect, however, to interpret that as meaning 84% were "against" any one option in particular. The only genuine method to see if the voting patterns of British voters were divergent to the whole is to conduct a count on a subset of entire vote containing only British voters.
Election title: Subset of British Editors
Method: IRV
Number of total ballots: 32
Number of invalid or empty ballots: 0
Number of ballots used in the count: 32
6 candidate running for 1 seats.
R|A |B |C |D |E |F |Exha
| | | | | | |uste
| | | | | | |d
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1| 1| 4| 4| 2| 5| 16| 0
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| Count of first choices.
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2| | 5| 4| 2| 5| 16| 0
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| Count after eliminating A and transferring votes.
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3| | 5| 4| | 6| 17| 0
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| Count after eliminating D and transferring votes.
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4| | 6| | | 9| 17| 0
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| Count after eliminating C and transferring votes.
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5| | | | | 13| 18| 1
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| Count after eliminating B and transferring votes.
Winner is F.
Notes:
An equal number of British and Irish editors have contributed to the poll.
E comes in second place in this subset and the poll as a whole.
F wins in both this subset and the vote as a whole.
