Pierce Election Data (00020)

The 2008 Pierce Data contains the results from several elections, including county executive, held in Pierce, WA in 2008. The set contains 4 distinct elections with between 4 and 7 canddiates and 40,000 and 300,000 voters.

Note that these elections were conducted under a ranked voting system which allowed blank entries. In processing this data for PrefLib we have ignored blanks and only report the order over the candidates.

The data on this page was donated by Jeffrey O'Neill who runs the site OpenSTV.org.

Required citations: Jeffery O'Neill. Open STV. www.OpenSTV.org, 2013.

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Number of files: 12
Total size: 32.5 KB
Data types: dat, toc, toi.
Publication date: July 9, 2014
Last modification: Oct. 15, 2024

2009 Pierce County Auditor — 00020-00000001.toi

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00020-00000001.dat	Includes the invalid ballots	Download [2.1 KB]
00020-00000001.toc	Obtained from the toi by adding the unranked alternatives at the bottom	Download [1.2 KB]

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1	# FILE NAME: 00020-00000001.toi
2	# TITLE: 2009 Pierce County Auditor
3	# DESCRIPTION:
4	# DATA TYPE: toi
5	# MODIFICATION TYPE: original
6	# RELATES TO:
7	# RELATED FILES: 00020-00000001.dat,00020-00000001.toc
8	# PUBLICATION DATE: 2014-07-09
9	# MODIFICATION DATE: 2022-09-16
10	# NUMBER ALTERNATIVES: 4
11	# NUMBER VOTERS: 153419
12	# NUMBER UNIQUE ORDERS: 46
13	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 1: Jan Shabro
14	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 2: Julie Anderson
15	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 3: Will Baker
...	...
17	26123: 2, 1, 3
18	24516: 1, 2, 3
19	23212: 2
20	21040: 1
21	11986: 2, 3, 1
22	10723: 2, 1
23	9041: 1, 2
24	6356: 1, 3, 2
25	5567: 3, 2, 1
26	3656: 3
...	...

2008 Pierce County Council - District 2 — 00020-00000002.toi

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00020-00000002.dat	Includes the invalid ballots	Download [1.5 KB]
00020-00000002.toc	Obtained from the toi by adding the unranked alternatives at the bottom	Download [1.1 KB]

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1	# FILE NAME: 00020-00000002.toi
2	# TITLE: 2008 Pierce County Council - District 2
3	# DESCRIPTION:
4	# DATA TYPE: toi
5	# MODIFICATION TYPE: original
6	# RELATES TO:
7	# RELATED FILES: 00020-00000002.dat,00020-00000002.toc
8	# PUBLICATION DATE: 2014-07-09
9	# MODIFICATION DATE: 2022-09-16
10	# NUMBER ALTERNATIVES: 4
11	# NUMBER VOTERS: 39989
12	# NUMBER UNIQUE ORDERS: 40
13	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 1: Al Rose
14	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 2: Carolyn Merrival
15	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 3: Joyce Mcdonald
...	...
17	10975: 3
18	4175: 1, 2, 3
19	3917: 3, 1, 2
20	3435: 3, 2, 1
21	3244: 1
22	2856: 2, 1, 3
23	2628: 1, 2
24	1807: 2
25	1788: 2, 1
26	1541: 1, 3, 2
...	...

2008 Pierce County Executive — 00020-00000003.toi

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File name	Description
00020-00000003.dat	Includes the invalid ballots	Download [3.2 KB]
00020-00000003.toc	Obtained from the toi by adding the unranked alternatives at the bottom	Download [2.3 KB]

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1	# FILE NAME: 00020-00000003.toi
2	# TITLE: 2008 Pierce County Executive
3	# DESCRIPTION:
4	# DATA TYPE: toi
5	# MODIFICATION TYPE: original
6	# RELATES TO:
7	# RELATED FILES: 00020-00000003.dat,00020-00000003.toc
8	# PUBLICATION DATE: 2014-07-09
9	# MODIFICATION DATE: 2022-09-16
10	# NUMBER ALTERNATIVES: 5
11	# NUMBER VOTERS: 298788
12	# NUMBER UNIQUE ORDERS: 99
13	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 1: Mike Lonergan
14	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 2: Pat Mccarthy
15	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 3: Calvin Goings
...	...
18	46832: 4
19	22575: 2, 3, 1
20	17040: 2
21	16823: 3, 2, 1
22	16649: 3
23	13430: 2, 3
24	11009: 3, 2
25	10329: 1
26	10209: 4, 1, 2
27	10051: 4, 1
...	...

2008 Pierce County Assessor - Treasurer — 00020-00000004.toi

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00020-00000004.dat	Includes the invalid ballots	Download [6.6 KB]
00020-00000004.toc	Obtained from the toi by adding the unranked alternatives at the bottom	Download [6.9 KB]

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1	# FILE NAME: 00020-00000004.toi
2	# TITLE: 2008 Pierce County Assessor - Treasurer
3	# DESCRIPTION:
4	# DATA TYPE: toi
5	# MODIFICATION TYPE: original
6	# RELATES TO:
7	# RELATED FILES: 00020-00000004.dat,00020-00000004.toc
8	# PUBLICATION DATE: 2014-07-09
9	# MODIFICATION DATE: 2022-09-16
10	# NUMBER ALTERNATIVES: 7
11	# NUMBER VOTERS: 262312
12	# NUMBER UNIQUE ORDERS: 296
13	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 1: Dale Washam
14	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 2: Terry Lee
15	# ALTERNATIVE NAME 3: Jan Shabro
...	...
20	21991: 1
21	16701: 3
22	16539: 5
23	14794: 2
24	8542: 1, 2, 3
25	7470: 6
26	4532: 3, 5, 6
27	4483: 4
28	4044: 5, 6, 3
29	3506: 1, 3, 5
...	...