Statatics from Election Results

[Bill (Smithville NJ)]

I'm placing this in the "Not Remotely HP Calculator" but I guess an HP Calculator could be used to analyze this.

This past Tuesday, we had a local election. I saw the following summary of the results in the local paper:

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Township Council

              Vote-Count    Percent
Tony C. (Rep)   2,650     18.78%
Tony D. (Rep)   2,427     17.20%
Rich C. (Rep)   2,309     16.37%
Jim G. (Dem)    2,239     15.87%
Tom S. (Dem)    2,185     15.49%
Joyce P. (Dem)  2,043     14.48%
Tom M (Ind)       252      1.79%
Write-In            3      0.02%

Total          14,108     100.0

Now for some general information.
(Rep) is the Republican Party
(Dem) is the Democratic Party
(Ind) is the Independent Party

Since the Township Council is composed of
three members, each voter was to vote for
three choices. The three could be the three
Republicans, the three Democrats or any
combination.

What struck me in the table of results printed by
the newspaper was that there was NOT 14,108
voters. Since each voter voted for three candidates
the actual number of voters was only about 4,702.

I'm guessing the newspaper just enter the election results
into a standard spreadsheet which generates the percentages.

The results of the election was that the three Republicans were
elected to new terms.

The question is: could this data be presented in a better manner to reflect the final results?

One way would be to look at the republicans versus the democrats.
This would be 53% Rep. versus 47% Dem.

What are some other meaningful statistics?

Thanks,

Bill
Smithville, NJ