Viewing Majority Results
Majority voting requires a choice to meet a winning threshold (for example, 50% or more of the votes) to be declared the winner. If no choice reaches the threshold, the vote has no winner. A quorum requirement can also be set, requiring a minimum percentage of invited voters to participate for the results to be valid.
This page explains how to access and interpret the results of a Majority vote.
Results are only available for polls that have ended. While a poll is still active, you can open the results panel but will see a message indicating that final results will be available once voting has ended.
Accessing Results
To view the results of a Majority vote:
Navigate to Collaboration > Voting in the PCC.
Locate the poll in the polls table.
Click the poll name, or click the overflow menu and select View Results.
The results panel opens on the right side of the screen.
Results Panel Overview
The results panel is divided into several sections, from top to bottom:
Poll Details — identifying information about the poll
Participation Metrics — response and participation statistics
Votes Cast and Abstained — vote count summary cards
Quorum Status — whether the quorum requirement has been met (only shown when a quorum is configured)
Question Results — the vote outcome and distribution for each question
An Export menu in the top-right corner of the panel lets you download the results as CSV or PNG.
Poll Details
At the top of the results panel, you will see:
Voting Type — displays "Majority"
Committee — the committee whose members were invited to vote
Poll Name — the title of the poll
Description — the poll description, truncated to 300 characters with a "show more" option
Participation Metrics
Four metric cards are displayed below the poll details:
Total Responses
The number of members who submitted a response (vote or abstention)
Invited
The total number of voting invitations sent
Participation
The percentage of invited members who responded (Total Responses / Invited)
Status
Whether the poll is Active or Ended, along with the end date and time in Pacific Time
Votes Cast and Abstained
Below the participation metrics, two summary cards display the vote breakdown:
Votes Cast — the number of members who submitted an actual vote (excluding abstentions). When pseudo-anonymity is disabled, a View voters link appears below the count, allowing you to see the full list of voters.
Abstained — the number of members who chose to abstain. This card only appears if the Allow Abstain Option was enabled when the poll was created. A View voters link is also available when pseudo-anonymity is disabled.
When pseudo-anonymity is enabled for the poll, vote counts are still displayed but the View voters links are hidden. Individual voter identities cannot be viewed in the PCC interface.
Quorum Status
If a quorum requirement was configured when the poll was created, a quorum status section appears below the summary cards. This section is unique to Majority voting and does not appear for Plurality votes.
Quorum Met
When enough invited voters have participated to meet the quorum, a green status box displays:
Quorum Met
X of Y invited voters participated (Z%). Required: Q%
Quorum Not Met
When participation falls below the required quorum, a red status box displays:
Quorum Not Met
X of Y invited voters participated (Z%). Required: Q%
If the poll has ended and the quorum was not met, an additional message appears:
The vote did not meet the required quorum and is therefore not valid.
When the quorum is not met, the vote is considered invalid. Even if a choice received enough votes to meet the winning threshold, the result is declared No winner because participation was insufficient.
Question Results
Each question in the poll displays two sections: the Majority - Final Vote Outcome and the Vote Distribution.
Multiple Questions
If the poll contains more than one question, results are organized into tabs labeled Question 1, Question 2, and so on. Click a tab to view the results for that question.
If the poll contains a single question, the results are displayed directly without tabs.
Majority - Final Vote Outcome
This section announces the result of the vote. The outcome depends on the state of the poll and whether the quorum and winning threshold requirements were satisfied.
Active (voting in progress)
A blue information box: "The vote is currently in progress. Final results will be available once voting has ended."
Single winner
A green box with a trophy icon showing the winning choice, its vote count, percentage, and confirmation that the winning threshold was met
Tie
An orange box with a handshake icon listing the tied choices, their shared vote count, and percentage. A tie is only shown when the tied choices meet the winning threshold.
No winner
An amber box explaining why no winner could be declared (quorum not met, threshold not met, or both)
No votes cast
A gray box indicating that no votes were cast for the question
Example — Single Winner:
Option A has won with 15 votes (60.0%), meeting the 50% threshold.
Example — Tie:
There is a tie between Option A and Option B, each with 10 votes (50.0%), both meeting the 50% threshold.
Example — No Winner (threshold not met):
No winner — No option has achieved the required 50% threshold.
Example — No Winner (quorum not met):
No winner — The required quorum was not met.
Example — No Winner (both quorum and threshold not met):
No winner — The required quorum was not met and no option has achieved the required 50% threshold.
How a Winner Is Determined
For a choice to be declared the winner of a Majority vote:
Quorum must be met — If a quorum percentage was configured, the participation rate must meet or exceed it. For example, if the quorum is set to 50% and 20 voters were invited, at least 10 must participate.
Winning threshold must be met — The leading choice must receive a percentage of the votes equal to or greater than the winning threshold. For example, if the threshold is 50% and 20 votes were cast, the winning choice needs at least 10 votes.
No tie — If two or more choices meet the threshold and share the highest vote count, a tie is declared instead of a single winner. If the tied choices do not meet the threshold, the result is No winner.
If either the quorum or the threshold is not met, the result is No winner with a message explaining which requirement was not satisfied.
Vote Distribution
Below the outcome, every choice is listed with the following details:
Choice text — the answer option
Percentage badge — the percentage of total votes this choice received, displayed as a rounded badge. The winning choice has a green badge; all other choices have a gray badge.
Vote count — the raw number of votes. When pseudo-anonymity is disabled, the vote count is a clickable link that opens the voter list for that specific choice.
Progress bar — a horizontal bar representing the percentage visually. The winning choice has a green bar; all other choices have a gray bar.
Each bar shows the percentage and number of votes received by each voting option. When pseudo-anonymity is disabled, you can click on the vote count to view the list of voters who selected that option.
Viewing Voter Details
When pseudo-anonymity is disabled, you can view who voted for a specific choice:
In the Vote Distribution section, click the vote count next to a choice.
A voter list opens showing each voter's details.
You can also click View voters on the Votes Cast or Abstained cards to see the full list of voters or abstained members.
When pseudo-anonymity is enabled, voter identity information is not available in the PCC interface. Vote counts and percentages are still displayed, but you cannot view individual voter details.
Exporting Results
To export the poll results:
Click the Export menu in the top-right corner of the results panel.
Select Export as CSV to download a spreadsheet of the results, or Export as PNG to download an image of the results panel.
How Majority Differs from Plurality
Winner determination
Must meet a winning threshold (e.g., 50%)
Most votes wins, no threshold required
Quorum requirement
Supported — results can be invalid if quorum is not met
Not applicable
No winner scenario
Possible if threshold or quorum is not met
Only possible if no votes are cast
Threshold display
Winner message includes "meeting the X% threshold"
No threshold mentioned
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