Congratulations, @Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2, @DucatiKiller, @BobCross!!!! I cannot say how thrilled I am with the results!

I think I've gotten better at voting... In the Ask Ubuntu elections, I voted for three candidates of which exactly 0 got in. In this election, two of my three choices got in... Not saying which, though. :)

So the way I understand it is this: @Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 got 99 votes, but only needed 51 - so the other 48 were taken away and redistributed according to their second preferences. @anonymous2 and @tlhIngan were knocked out, and their votes redistributed (either second preference, or third if their second was @Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2), followed by @RoryAlsop - This gave @DucatiKiller enough votes to get elected. The same happened to @MoveMoreCommentsLinkToTop, then to @Zaid, until @BobCross had enough to get elected.

I'm assuming 'Exhausted' is the number of votes that have been used up (i.e. all their choices are either elected or eliminated), but I have no idea how the threshold is calculated...

@NickC - There is a matrix of how it all boils down ... I don't really get it either and have no clue why it's so complicated.

@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 because it can be?

@NickC - I think you may be on to something ... I can think of easier ways for it to happen, that's for sure, where the process would be far less convoluted.

It is the only really fair way to do voting, according to all the experts on modern voting systems, apparently.

We have one of the leaders in this field pops in to security.se regularly, and he did explain it all very well

But yeah, Nick has the gist of it

@NickC Might have brain damage then. Hope it's temporary! :)

@NickC As for the threshold, it's has to do with the total number of votes cast and the number of positions available.

@NickC In this case, 200 votes cast, 3 positions, if the 3 winning candidates get 50, 50 and 51 votes, there's only 49 votes left to go around, therefore no 4th candidate could beat any of the top 3.

@NickC Of course, @Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 destroyed that theory. 99 out of 200 votes for the one guy, the rest of us are fighting for scraps. :)