Worldcon Site Selection -- Unofficial Results

[kevin_standlee]

When you watch a horse race, you may see the horse named "Montreal" cross the finish line first, but you're not allowed to cash your ticket until the OFFICIAL sign lights up. With Worldcons, the OFFICIAL sign is when the WSFS Site Selection Business Meeting formally receives the results, and that will be shortly after 1000 local time in Yokohama today, Sunday, September 2.

However, I understand that Montreal did win, by around 100 votes. I'll post the detailed results when I get a chance.

Comments

[redneckotaku.livejournal.com]

I have thoughts on the Montreal (soon to be official) win, but I will hold my analysis for tomorrow morning. I am not going to be up until midnight, tonight unless I watch Adult Swim.

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

My understanding (second-hand, from one of the bidders) is that the final vote count was 341 KC and 507 Montreal, with a total of 901 votes cast. A total of 53 others, if those numbers are correct, had no preference, voted none of the above, or voted for Minneapolis in '73 (or wherever).

This is a pretty high no preference vote for a contested race. By contrast, there were 46 no preference votes in the 2004 race (in 2001), with 2,094 votes cast; 32 no preference votes in the 2006 race (in 2003), with 1,481 votes cast; 38 voters had no preference of the 1,686 votes cast in the 2007 race (in 2004); and of 1,481 votes cast last year for the 2009 site selection, only 32 were no preference.

Uncontested races often have both low voter turnout and high no preference number. The 2006 race (in 2002) yielded 1,034 votes, 53 of which were no preference. It is unfortunate that the 2009 race has a lower voter turnout than that, but the same number of no preference votes.