Unofficial election results: Mon-El projected as new leader

First things first... The Legion Omnicom is projecting Mon-El as the new Legion Leader for election 2010.

The Legion Election is over. According to my unofficial election poll, Mon-El is the new leader with Phantom Girl as the new Deputy. Here are my final results, with over 760 voters (which is a good 2% of the actual readers). Using the Associated Press method of calculating margin of error, the numbers here are likely to be correct to within plus or minus 5 percentage points.

Although Mon-El leads Phantom Girl by only 2.5 points, which is within the margin of error, trends over the course of the polling leads The Omnicom Network to call Mon-El the winner of Legion Election 2010, with Phantom Girl as the runner-up and thus the Deputy Leader.

Official results are still being tallied, and the actual winner will be announced in-story in the issue coming out in December 2010.

	Percentage	Votes
Mon-El	16.28%	126
Phantom Girl	13.70%	106
Gates	7.49%	58
Brainiac 5	6.33%	49
Tyroc	5.81%	45
Shadow Lass	5.04%	39
Sensor Girl	4.13%	32
Lightning Lass	3.62%	28
Quislet	3.62%	28
Shrinking Violet	3.49%	27
Polar Boy	3.10%	24
Dream Girl	2.97%	23
Dawnstar	2.58%	20
Element Lad	2.58%	20
Chameleon Boy	2.45%	19
Cosmic Boy	2.20%	17
Timber Wolf	2.20%	17
Ultra Boy	2.07%	16
Earth Man	1.94%	15
Colossal Boy	1.55%	12
Invisible Kid	1.55%	12
Sun Boy	1.55%	12
Tellus	1.42%	11
Wildfire	1.42%	11
Chameleon Girl	0.90%	7

I have to assume that this is a legitimate tally with no shenanigans (though I have heard anecdotal evidence of people voting more than once).

Some observations:

• Interestingly, Phantom Girl led from day 1 up through about a week before the election closed, when Mon-El surged ahead. I'm not sure what got people voting for him - was there some online effort in a forum that urged voters to choose him or something? Or is it just that more people are familiar with him because of his 21st century "Superman" appearances?
• Gates' showing here was, I believe, a way of throwing Paul Levitz a curveball - "Let's see what he can do with THIS!" type thing. I voted for Gates for that reason.
• Tyroc too. When has he been popular enough to have people vote for him? I think this was a vote for "Let's pick the character that Levitz has said that he dislikes the most."
• Towards the low end of the voting, we have many characters who are actually in the spotlight, like Sun Boy, Earth Man, Ultra Boy, and Polar Boy. That's puzzling, unless these are characters that the readers think are being OVER-used. Yet Brainiac 5, also in the spotlight, is near the top of the votes.
• Wildfire, second from last? He has always been one of the MOST popular Legionnaires.

Now, on the other hand, not sure how Mon-El and Phantom Girl fit when Paul Levitz wrote that he "is busy tearing up his Legion plot charts and figuring out how to accommodate the will of the masses!".

Thursday election polls

I'm not going to make this a daily thing (yet), but here are day 2's exit polling. The Legion leader election website has been open for 2 days now, so let's check out unofficial trends. If you've already voted and have not anonymously recorded your vote with me, please go to the exit poll here and let me know who you voted for - and if you frequent a message board where they're discussing the election, please post the exit poll link, I'd like to hear from as many voters as possible.

A reminder: this is a highly unscientific survey of those people who went to the website and said they voted, so I have to take everyone at their word that who they voted for here is who they voted for in the election, and that there's been no ballot box stuffing.

After 312 votes (as of 11:45 pm CDT on 10/21/10) cast, here are the leading candidates with more than 5% of the total votes cast:

• Phantom Girl - 15.48% (48 votes)
• Gates - 9.68% (30 votes)
• Mon-El - 8.33% (26 votes) 
• Brainiac 5 - 7.10% (22 votes) 
• Tyroc - 7.10% (22 votes)
• Quislet - 5.16% (16 votes) 

 Compare this to Wednesday's votes:

• Phantom Girl - 12.50% (23 votes) 
• Gates - 9.78% (18 votes)
• Brainiac 5 - 7.61% (14 votes)
• Tyroc - 7.07% (13 votes) 
• Mon-El - 5.98% (11 votes)
• Quislet - 5.98% (11 votes)
• Sensor Girl - 5.98% (11 votes)

Phantom Girl increases her lead by 3 percentage points and Mon-El picks up 2. Everyone else is basically flat lined. Still too early to call, with only 2 days of voting tallies in a 3-week election. There won't be any "October Surprise" to change the public's mind about the candidates, though a previously untold flashback in the next issue of Adventure Comics might sway some undecided voters who haven't cast their ballot yet.

Incidentally, the 312 votes cast here represents approximately 0.85% of the 36,360 copies of LSH v6 #3 that were sold (the latest sales figures available).

Election trends: who's leading in the exit polls?

Via holo-vid reporter Marella Tao of "Metropolis Tonite",

Although the Legion leader election website has only been open for about 24 hours, there are some unofficial trends on the exit polls. (If you've already voted, please go to the exit poll here and let me know who you voted for.)

A reminder: this is a highly unscientific survey of those people who went to the website and said they voted, so I have to take everyone at their word that who they voted for here is who they voted for in the election. After 184 votes (as of 9pm CDT on 10/20/10) cast, here are the leading candidates with more than 5% of the total votes cast:

• Phantom Girl 12.50% (23 votes) 
• Gates 9.78% (18 votes)
• Brainiac 5 7.61% (14 votes)
• Tyroc 7.07% (13 votes) 
• Mon-El 5.98% (11 votes)
• Quislet 5.98% (11 votes)
• Sensor Girl 5.98% (11 votes)

Reporter's commentary: I believe that the Gates, Tyroc, and Quislet votes are there to throw Paul Levitz a curveball. But I could live with Tinya as leader; she's the longest-serving member who's never been elected before (without knowing what went on prior to the "Superman & the Legion" story arc).
We've got til November 10 to vote.

Who did you vote for Legion leader in 2010?

Who did you vote for as the new Legion Leader? I've set up a poll to see how the votes here match the final vote. Please only vote once, and only vote for the person you voted for on DC's site.

Who did you vote for in the Legion election of 2010?

• Brainiac 5
• Chameleon Boy
• Chameleon Girl
• Colossal Boy
• Cosmic Boy
• Dawnstar
• Dream Girl
• Earth Man
• Element Lad
• Gates
• Invisible Kid
• Lightning Lass
• Mon-El
• Phantom Girl
• Polar Boy
• Quislet
• Sensor Girl
• Shadow Lass
• Shrinking Violet
• Sun Boy
• Tellus
• Timber Wolf
• Tyroc
• Ultra Boy
• Wildfire

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Legion election voting is now open!

The Legion election has its own page at the DC site, open now through Nov. 10th. You have 25 candidates to choose from (including Chameleon Girl, Earth-Man, and Gates, but not including Matter-Eater Lad), with no write-ins. Apparently you're limited to one vote per IP address.

Greetings, Legionnaires!
By the order of the LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES CONSTITUTION, a Legion leader will be chosen in a manner determined by its membership. Please review the following list of active members for the Legionnaire that you feel embodies the traits and skills of a strong leader. Remember Legion Constitutional Amendment to Section 8.0: Anyone attempting to use their superpowers to influence the election may be exiled to Shanghalla and their votes discarded!

Computo will tally the votes between the polling period of OCTOBER 20 and NOVEMBER 10.

I voted for Gates, just to see what Paul Levitz would do with him.

And incidentally, section 8.0 of the Legion Constitution really does cover voting. The new leader is the one with a plurality of the votes, with the deputy leader the one with the next highest number of votes.

Tenzil Kem for President?

Found this over at Channel 3 News.

Vote!

If you don't vote, you shouldn't get to complain.

(P.S. Don't vote for Desai!)

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