Senatorial · Full tabulation

174th Senatorial Election

Counted independently by this paper from the Electoral Commission's published ballot sheet: 69 ballots, 27 candidates, 10 seats. Our count returns the same ten senators the Commission announced, at the same thresholds.

Ballots
69
Seats
10
Quota
6.9000
Held
17 August 2026

The result

  1. 1 PHon Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality Round 1 , at a bar of 5
  2. 2 Jotan Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality Round 2 , at a bar of 5
  3. 3 Mercury Fede Civil Liberties Party Round 3 , at a bar of 5
  4. 4 Ed Independent Round 4 , at a bar of 5
  5. 5 Senator Right Kelvin Civil Liberties Party Round 5 , at a bar of 5
  6. 6 tmc Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality Round 7 , at a bar of 4
  7. 7 ARCHIVIST Revitalize! SimDem Round 9 , at a bar of 3
  8. 8 NotCom Civil Liberties Party Round 12 , second phase, no quota
  9. 9 SkULL Solidarity Party Round 13 , second phase, no quota
  10. 10 Asa Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality Round 14 , second phase, no quota

Seats that changed hands afterwards

The result above is election night as announced, and is not changed by these.

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How the count went, round by round 14 rounds

Threshold Equal Approval, in one paragraph. Every ballot scores every candidate from 0 to 5 and starts with one unit of voting power. The count begins by asking who was given a 5 by enough of the electorate to make a quota — here 6.9000 ballots' worth. Whoever can be elected most cheaply takes a seat, and the ballots that elected them give up the power it cost, so they carry less weight in later rounds. When nobody else can clear the bar, the bar drops to 4, then 3, and so on. That is the whole method: the rest is arithmetic, and all of it is below.

Watch the count

Round
Before the count
Bar
Seats filled
0
Voting power spent
0

Support against the quota — the line is one quota. A bar reaching it can pay for a seat.
The electorate's voting power. One square per ballot, full when unspent and draining as it pays for seats.
  1. Round 1 Bar at 5 PHon elected

    PHon was scored 5 or more by enough of the electorate to make a quota, and did it at the lowest cost of anyone qualifying, so takes a seat. Each of the 23 ballots backing PHon gives up 0.3 of its voting power, so it counts for less in later rounds.

    Candidate Ballots Weight behind them Cost per ballot (n) Quota met?
    ARCHIVIST 8 8.0000 0.8625 Yes
    Akimov 7 7.0000 0.9857 Yes
    Asa 13 13.0000 0.5308 Yes
    Chinry 16 16.0000 0.4313 Yes
    Cup_Of_Sauce 9 9.0000 0.7667 Yes
    Dapper frog/a_pretty_dapper_frog 4 4.0000 No
    Ed 17 17.0000 0.4059 Yes
    Herman Miller 9 9.0000 0.7667 Yes
    Jotan 19 19.0000 0.3632 Yes
    LengthinessOne6090 2 2.0000 No
    Mercury Fede 17 17.0000 0.4059 Yes
    NotCom 12 12.0000 0.5750 Yes
    PHon elected 23 23.0000 0.3000 Yes
    Rein 6 6.0000 No
    Senator Right Kelvin 14 14.0000 0.4929 Yes
    SkULL 11 11.0000 0.6273 Yes
    Solus 7 7.0000 0.9857 Yes
    Stalin 14 14.0000 0.4929 Yes
    Venus 5 5.0000 No
    brandmal11 15 15.0000 0.4600 Yes
    bruhmon0412 3 3.0000 No
    ivycactus 14 14.0000 0.4929 Yes
    ouroboros/ouro_bo.ros 7 7.0000 0.9857 Yes
    qd1m 9 9.0000 0.7667 Yes
    rosanerajay 8 8.0000 0.8625 Yes
    ti-kid/amazon_webservice 8 8.0000 0.8625 Yes
    tmc 18 18.0000 0.3833 Yes
    Quota
    6.9000
    Charged per ballot
    0.3000
    Ballots charged
    23
    Weight spent
    6.9000
    Weight still in play
    62.1000
  2. Round 2 Bar at 5 Jotan elected

    Jotan was scored 5 or more by enough of the electorate to make a quota, and did it at the lowest cost of anyone qualifying, so takes a seat. Each of the 19 ballots backing Jotan gives up 0.3632 of its voting power, so it counts for less in later rounds.

    Candidate Ballots Weight behind them Cost per ballot (n) Quota met?
    ARCHIVIST 8 7.4000 0.9167 Yes
    Akimov 7 6.1000 No
    Asa 13 9.4000 0.5308 Yes
    Chinry 16 11.5000 0.4313 Yes
    Cup_Of_Sauce 9 7.8000 0.8200 Yes
    Dapper frog/a_pretty_dapper_frog 4 3.4000 No
    Ed 17 14.3000 0.4059 Yes
    Herman Miller 9 8.4000 0.7857 Yes
    Jotan elected 19 14.2000 0.3632 Yes
    LengthinessOne6090 2 1.7000 No
    Mercury Fede 17 16.4000 0.4059 Yes
    NotCom 12 11.4000 0.5750 Yes
    Rein 6 4.8000 No
    Senator Right Kelvin 14 14.0000 0.4929 Yes
    SkULL 11 9.2000 0.6273 Yes
    Solus 7 6.7000 No
    Stalin 14 12.8000 0.4929 Yes
    Venus 5 4.1000 No
    brandmal11 15 10.5000 0.4600 Yes
    bruhmon0412 3 2.7000 No
    ivycactus 14 11.6000 0.4929 Yes
    ouroboros/ouro_bo.ros 7 6.7000 No
    qd1m 9 8.1000 0.8000 Yes
    rosanerajay 8 6.8000 No
    ti-kid/amazon_webservice 8 6.8000 No
    tmc 18 13.2000 0.3833 Yes
    Quota
    6.9000
    Charged per ballot
    0.3632
    Ballots charged
    19
    Weight spent
    6.9000
    Weight still in play
    55.2000
  3. Round 3 Bar at 5 Mercury Fede elected

    Mercury Fede was scored 5 or more by enough of the electorate to make a quota, and did it at the lowest cost of anyone qualifying, so takes a seat. Each of the 17 ballots backing Mercury Fede gives up 0.4102 of its voting power, so it counts for less in later rounds.

    Candidate Ballots Weight behind them Cost per ballot (n) Quota met?
    ARCHIVIST 8 6.6737 No
    Akimov 7 5.3737 No
    Asa 13 5.4053 No
    Chinry 16 7.5053 0.6389 Yes
    Cup_Of_Sauce 9 6.7105 No
    Dapper frog/a_pretty_dapper_frog 4 2.6737 No
    Ed 17 11.7579 0.4435 Yes
    Herman Miller 9 7.6737 0.8895 Yes
    LengthinessOne6090 2 1.3368 No
    Mercury Fede elected 17 16.0368 0.4102 Yes
    NotCom 12 10.6737 0.5967 Yes
    Rein 6 4.0737 No
    Senator Right Kelvin 14 14.0000 0.4929 Yes
    SkULL 11 6.6579 No
    Solus 7 6.3368 No
    Stalin 14 11.7105 0.5189 Yes
    Venus 5 3.0105 No
    brandmal11 15 6.1421 No
    bruhmon0412 3 2.3368 No
    ivycactus 14 9.4211 0.5795 Yes
    ouroboros/ouro_bo.ros 7 6.3368 No
    qd1m 9 7.3737 0.9211 Yes
    rosanerajay 8 5.3474 No
    ti-kid/amazon_webservice 8 4.9842 No
    tmc 18 8.8421 0.4564 Yes
    Quota
    6.9000
    Charged per ballot
    0.4102
    Ballots charged
    17
    Weight spent
    6.9000
    Weight still in play
    48.3000
  4. Round 4 Bar at 5 Ed elected

    Ed was scored 5 or more by enough of the electorate to make a quota, and did it at the lowest cost of anyone qualifying, so takes a seat. Each of the 17 ballots backing Ed gives up 0.4589 of its voting power, so it counts for less in later rounds.

    Candidate Ballots Weight behind them Cost per ballot (n) Quota met?
    ARCHIVIST 8 6.6737 No
    Akimov 7 3.7329 No
    Asa 13 5.4053 No
    Chinry 16 7.5053 0.6389 Yes
    Cup_Of_Sauce 9 5.8901 No
    Dapper frog/a_pretty_dapper_frog 4 2.6737 No
    Ed elected 17 10.9375 0.4589 Yes
    Herman Miller 9 5.6227 No
    LengthinessOne6090 2 1.3368 No
    NotCom 12 7.8023 0.6086 Yes
    Rein 6 3.2533 No
    Senator Right Kelvin 14 10.7184 0.4929 Yes
    SkULL 11 6.6579 No
    Solus 7 3.8757 No
    Stalin 14 8.5023 0.5703 Yes
    Venus 5 3.0105 No
    brandmal11 15 5.7319 No
    bruhmon0412 3 2.3368 No
    ivycactus 14 8.6007 0.6195 Yes
    ouroboros/ouro_bo.ros 7 6.3368 No
    qd1m 9 6.9635 0.9873 Yes
    rosanerajay 8 4.5270 No
    ti-kid/amazon_webservice 8 4.5740 No
    tmc 18 8.0217 0.4842 Yes
    Quota
    6.9000
    Charged per ballot
    0.4589
    Ballots charged
    17
    Weight spent
    6.9000
    Weight still in play
    41.4000
  5. Round 5 Bar at 5 Senator Right Kelvin elected

    Senator Right Kelvin was scored 5 or more by enough of the electorate to make a quota, and did it at the lowest cost of anyone qualifying, so takes a seat. Each of the 14 ballots backing Senator Right Kelvin gives up 0.5207 of its voting power, so it counts for less in later rounds.

    Candidate Ballots Weight behind them Cost per ballot (n) Quota met?
    ARCHIVIST 8 6.0000 No
    Akimov 7 2.3105 No
    Asa 13 4.0579 No
    Chinry 16 4.7812 No
    Cup_Of_Sauce 9 3.0910 No
    Dapper frog/a_pretty_dapper_frog 4 1.0822 No
    Herman Miller 9 4.3680 No
    LengthinessOne6090 2 0.5411 No
    NotCom 12 7.3434 0.7783 Yes
    Rein 6 1.8309 No
    Senator Right Kelvin elected 14 9.8006 0.5207 Yes
    SkULL 11 3.9338 No
    Solus 7 3.0799 No
    Stalin 14 6.8358 No
    Venus 5 1.8779 No
    brandmal11 15 3.2990 No
    bruhmon0412 3 2.3368 No
    ivycactus 14 4.2100 No
    ouroboros/ouro_bo.ros 7 6.0000 No
    qd1m 9 6.1677 No
    rosanerajay 8 1.8029 No
    ti-kid/amazon_webservice 8 3.1046 No
    tmc 18 5.1299 No
    Quota
    6.9000
    Charged per ballot
    0.5207
    Ballots charged
    14
    Weight spent
    6.9000
    Weight still in play
    34.5000
  6. Round 6 Bar at 4 Bar lowered

    No remaining candidate was scored 5 or more by enough of the electorate to make a quota, so the bar drops to 4.

    Quota
    6.9000
    Weight still in play
    34.5000
  7. Round 7 Bar at 4 tmc elected

    tmc was scored 4 or more by enough of the electorate to make a quota, and did it at the lowest cost of anyone qualifying, so takes a seat. Each of the 21 ballots backing tmc gives up 0.3924 of its voting power, so it counts for less in later rounds.

    Candidate Ballots Weight behind them Cost per ballot (n) Quota met?
    ARCHIVIST 11 6.9148 0.9975 Yes
    Akimov 9 1.9073 No
    Asa 17 6.6990 No
    Chinry 24 8.4486 0.4766 Yes
    Cup_Of_Sauce 9 2.4394 No
    Dapper frog/a_pretty_dapper_frog 4 1.0822 No
    Herman Miller 13 3.5319 No
    LengthinessOne6090 4 0.6941 No
    NotCom 12 4.2192 No
    Rein 8 2.2779 No
    SkULL 15 4.6279 No
    Solus 11 2.8616 No
    Stalin 15 3.5277 No
    Venus 6 2.2148 No
    brandmal11 19 5.7194 No
    bruhmon0412 7 2.7145 No
    ivycactus 15 3.5054 No
    ouroboros/ouro_bo.ros 7 6.0000 No
    qd1m 10 6.6470 No
    rosanerajay 14 3.8822 No
    ti-kid/amazon_webservice 13 6.3193 No
    tmc elected 27 8.6959 0.3924 Yes
    Quota
    6.9000
    Charged per ballot
    0.3924
    Ballots charged
    21
    Weight spent
    6.9000
    Weight still in play
    27.6000
  8. Round 8 Bar at 3 Bar lowered

    No remaining candidate was scored 4 or more by enough of the electorate to make a quota, so the bar drops to 3.

    Quota
    6.9000
    Weight still in play
    27.6000
  9. Round 9 Bar at 3 ARCHIVIST elected

    ARCHIVIST was scored 3 or more by enough of the electorate to make a quota, and did it at the lowest cost of anyone qualifying, so takes a seat. Each of the 9 ballots backing ARCHIVIST gives up 0.9521 of its voting power, so it counts for less in later rounds.

    Candidate Ballots Weight behind them Cost per ballot (n) Quota met?
    ARCHIVIST elected 14 7.2356 0.9521 Yes
    Akimov 14 2.9869 No
    Asa 20 5.0159 No
    Chinry 30 6.0762 No
    Cup_Of_Sauce 13 3.6484 No
    Dapper frog/a_pretty_dapper_frog 6 1.0822 No
    Herman Miller 17 3.6485 No
    LengthinessOne6090 6 0.1691 No
    NotCom 13 3.7222 No
    Rein 9 2.2411 No
    SkULL 20 3.5622 No
    Solus 15 3.0837 No
    Stalin 18 2.9939 No
    Venus 10 3.0076 No
    brandmal11 23 3.1584 No
    bruhmon0412 8 1.2560 No
    ivycactus 17 2.4560 No
    ouroboros/ouro_bo.ros 8 6.1487 No
    qd1m 16 6.5313 No
    rosanerajay 15 2.9382 No
    ti-kid/amazon_webservice 16 4.1316 No
    Quota
    6.9000
    Charged per ballot
    0.9521
    Ballots charged
    9
    Weight spent
    6.9000
    Weight still in play
    20.7000
  10. Round 10 Bar at 2 Bar lowered

    No remaining candidate was scored 3 or more by enough of the electorate to make a quota, so the bar drops to 2.

    Quota
    6.9000
    Weight still in play
    20.7000
  11. Round 11 Bar at 1 Bar lowered

    No remaining candidate was scored 2 or more by enough of the electorate to make a quota, so the bar drops to 1.

    Quota
    6.9000
    Weight still in play
    20.7000
  12. Round 12 NotCom elected

    No one can reach a quota even at the lowest bar, so the last seats go on remaining support. NotCom held the most unspent ballot weight (6.804) and takes the seat; those ballots are now spent.

    Candidate Ballots Weight behind them Cost per ballot (n) Quota met?
    Akimov 9 3.8835 No
    Asa 10 5.4563 No
    Chinry 11 4.4775 No
    Cup_Of_Sauce 8 3.2094 No
    Dapper frog/a_pretty_dapper_frog 6 2.2720 No
    Herman Miller 14 3.1342 No
    LengthinessOne6090 4 1.7102 No
    NotCom elected 14 6.8044 No
    Rein 8 3.4932 No
    SkULL 10 4.6651 No
    Solus 12 3.6541 No
    Stalin 12 3.5829 No
    Venus 7 3.1487 No
    brandmal11 6 2.5118 No
    bruhmon0412 7 2.3101 No
    ivycactus 8 3.2177 No
    ouroboros/ouro_bo.ros 8 1.8287 No
    qd1m 13 3.5190 No
    rosanerajay 7 3.2068 No
    ti-kid/amazon_webservice 8 3.8795 No
    Quota
    6.9000
    Ballots charged
    14
    Weight spent
    6.8044
    Weight still in play
    13.8956
  13. Round 13 SkULL elected

    No one can reach a quota even at the lowest bar, so the last seats go on remaining support. SkULL held the most unspent ballot weight (3.975) and takes the seat; those ballots are now spent.

    Candidate Ballots Weight behind them Cost per ballot (n) Quota met?
    Akimov 3 1.3555 No
    Asa 7 3.2152 No
    Chinry 6 2.0187 No
    Cup_Of_Sauce 7 2.6683 No
    Dapper frog/a_pretty_dapper_frog 5 1.7309 No
    Herman Miller 7 1.6887 No
    LengthinessOne6090 2 1.0204 No
    Rein 6 2.2522 No
    SkULL elected 8 3.9753 No
    Solus 5 1.1366 No
    Stalin 4 1.1374 No
    Venus 5 1.9076 No
    brandmal11 5 1.9707 No
    bruhmon0412 5 1.6204 No
    ivycactus 5 2.4589 No
    ouroboros/ouro_bo.ros 7 1.2876 No
    qd1m 10 2.8397 No
    rosanerajay 4 1.8966 No
    ti-kid/amazon_webservice 6 3.1898 No
    Quota
    6.9000
    Ballots charged
    8
    Weight spent
    3.9753
    Weight still in play
    9.9203
  14. Round 14 Asa elected

    No one can reach a quota even at the lowest bar, so the last seats go on remaining support. Asa held the most unspent ballot weight (1.615) and takes the seat; those ballots are now spent.

    Candidate Ballots Weight behind them Cost per ballot (n) Quota met?
    Akimov 0 0.0000 No
    Asa elected 3 1.6152 No
    Chinry 3 0.6631 No
    Cup_Of_Sauce 2 0.0683 No
    Dapper frog/a_pretty_dapper_frog 1 0.0479 No
    Herman Miller 3 0.5476 No
    LengthinessOne6090 1 0.0204 No
    Rein 3 1.3555 No
    Solus 3 0.5476 No
    Stalin 3 1.0895 No
    Venus 2 1.3076 No
    brandmal11 2 0.6152 No
    bruhmon0412 2 1.0204 No
    ivycactus 2 0.6102 No
    ouroboros/ouro_bo.ros 5 0.2397 No
    qd1m 6 1.2397 No
    rosanerajay 0 0.0000 No
    ti-kid/amazon_webservice 0 0.0000 No
    Quota
    6.9000
    Ballots charged
    3
    Weight spent
    1.6152
    Weight still in play
    8.3051

What the ballots say

Consensus candidates

Scored consistently across the electorate — a low spread around their average.

  • LengthinessOne6090 mean 0.45, spread 1.44
  • Dapper frog/a_pretty_dapper_frog mean 0.55, spread 1.67
  • bruhmon0412 mean 0.67, spread 1.99

Polarising candidates

Most of their scores are either 5 or 0 — loved and loathed, rarely middling.

  • ouroboros/ouro_bo.ros 0.93 at the extremes (7×5, 57×0)
  • NotCom 0.91 at the extremes (12×5, 51×0)
  • Stalin 0.90 at the extremes (14×5, 48×0)

Margin on the final seat

Asa took the last seat on 1.6152 of ballot weight against Rein's 1.3555 — a gap of 0.2597.

Ballot weight left unspent

8.3051 of 69 ballots' worth of voting power was never used to elect anybody — the count's measure of wasted votes.

Score distributions

PHon mean 2.17
34 0
1 1
3 2
4 3
4 4
23 5
Jotan mean 2.13
35 0
1 1
2 2
1 3
11 4
19 5
tmc mean 2.00
37 0
1 1
1 2
3 3
9 4
18 5
Chinry mean 1.93
37 0
1 1
1 2
6 3
8 4
16 5
Ed mean 1.65
40 0
4 1
3 2
1 3
4 4
17 5
Mercury Fede mean 1.57
43 0
2 1
2 2
3 3
2 4
17 5
brandmal11 mean 1.52
45 0
0 1
1 2
4 3
4 4
15 5
SkULL mean 1.41
43 0
1 1
5 2
5 3
4 4
11 5
Asa mean 1.36
46 0
2 1
1 2
3 3
4 4
13 5
Stalin mean 1.29
48 0
0 1
3 2
3 3
1 4
14 5
ivycactus mean 1.26
48 0
1 1
3 2
2 3
1 4
14 5
Senator Right Kelvin mean 1.23
48 0
2 1
3 2
1 3
1 4
14 5
Herman Miller mean 1.19
46 0
3 1
3 2
4 3
4 4
9 5
qd1m mean 1.16
45 0
3 1
5 2
6 3
1 4
9 5
ti-kid/amazon_webservice mean 1.12
48 0
2 1
3 2
3 3
5 4
8 5
rosanerajay mean 1.10
48 0
3 1
3 2
1 3
6 4
8 5
Solus mean 1.03
48 0
4 1
2 2
4 3
4 4
7 5
NotCom mean 1.01
51 0
3 1
2 2
1 3
0 4
12 5
ARCHIVIST mean 1.00
49 0
4 1
2 2
3 3
3 4
8 5
Akimov mean 0.96
49 0
4 1
2 2
5 3
2 4
7 5
Cup_Of_Sauce mean 0.96
49 0
5 1
2 2
4 3
0 4
9 5
Rein mean 0.80
51 0
4 1
5 2
1 3
2 4
6 5
Venus mean 0.77
52 0
2 1
5 2
4 3
1 4
5 5
bruhmon0412 mean 0.67
53 0
4 1
4 2
1 3
4 4
3 5
ouroboros/ouro_bo.ros mean 0.65
57 0
1 1
3 2
1 3
0 4
7 5
Dapper frog/a_pretty_dapper_frog mean 0.55
54 0
6 1
3 2
2 3
0 4
4 5
LengthinessOne6090 mean 0.45
59 0
1 1
3 2
2 3
2 4
2 5

The same ballots under a different system 10 seats

These are not predictions. They are the ballots that were actually cast, counted again under other rules — which is a different question from what the electorate would have done had the rules been different. People vote differently when the system changes, and candidates stand differently too. Read them as a measure of how much the method decided, not of what anybody wanted.

As counted · Threshold Equal Approval

Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality 4 · Civil Liberties Party 3 · Independent 1 · Revitalize! SimDem 1 · Solidarity Party 1

  1. PHon
  2. Jotan
  3. Mercury Fede
  4. Ed
  5. Senator Right Kelvin
  6. tmc
  7. ARCHIVIST
  8. NotCom
  9. SkULL
  10. Asa

Score

Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality 6 · Civil Liberties Party 2 · Independent 1 · Solidarity Party 1

3 of 10 seats change hands

  1. PHon
  2. Jotan
  3. tmc
  4. Chinry
  5. Ed
  6. Mercury Fede
  7. brandmal11
  8. SkULL
  9. Asa
  10. Stalin

Loses their seat: Senator Right Kelvin, ARCHIVIST, NotCom

Add every score together and elect the highest totals. The simplest reading of the same ballots, and the least proportional: a bloc that scores its own slate highly takes everything, because nothing is ever spent.

Approval at 4+

Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality 6 · Civil Liberties Party 2 · Independent 1 · Solidarity Party 1

2 of 10 seats change hands

  1. Jotan
  2. PHon
  3. tmc
  4. Chinry
  5. Ed
  6. Mercury Fede
  7. brandmal11
  8. Asa
  9. Senator Right Kelvin
  10. SkULL

Loses their seat: ARCHIVIST, NotCom

Treat any score of 4 or 5 as approval; elect the most approved. Ignores how strongly anyone feels above the line and how much below it. Rewards being widely acceptable rather than intensely backed.

Closed party-list D'Hondt

Revolutionary Organization for Social Equality 4 · Civil Liberties Party 3 · Independent 3

4 of 10 seats change hands

  1. PHon
  2. Jotan
  3. tmc
  4. Chinry
  5. Mercury Fede
  6. Stalin
  7. Senator Right Kelvin
  8. Ed
  9. ivycactus
  10. Herman Miller

Loses their seat: ARCHIVIST, NotCom, SkULL, Asa

Voters pick one party; seats go to parties, and parties pick who fills them. The system the Get alts out of the Senate Amendment would have installed, rejected in referendum on 29.82% Aye. The ballots hold no party vote, so each is credited to whichever party it gave the most score to in total; ballots split exactly evenly are excluded. 3 of 69 ballots could not be assigned a party and are excluded from this one.


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Every ballot this count used is published: read them here, or download the CSV and run the numbers yourself.

The Commission's own sheet for 174th Senatorial Election.