At the first count when Jade had 20% of the vote

I'm interested in seeing how close everyone was before they reopened the phone lines.

The breakdown of the voting across the 8,589,713 votes polled is as follows:

Total Votes Received:

Jade: 1,404,422 - 16.35%

Alex: 1,834,426 - 21.36%

Jonny: 2,244,788 - 26.13%

Kate: 3,106,077 - 36.16%

you wouldn't happen to know what the % was at Jades eviction would you

No, thats being kept very quiet. What I would like to know is when the phone lines reopened each time, did the counting start from the new lot of votes or did it include all the votes?

I'd like to know how many votes Alex received, between 9.50 and 10.10 when it was announced they'd stopped taking votes at 9.50. Was I the only one who missed being told the cut off would be 9.50?! I got through 3 times.(with a great deal of trouble I might add)

Were the phone lines really open?
I expected them to be busy and perhaps not able to get through but I tried to ring after Jade's eviction but was informed 'this number has not been recognized.'

The numbers were on the screen in front of me...and no matter how many times I carefully redialled, I kept getting the same message.
Did anyone else have this problem?

I think it included all the votes from the start.

( wormy little impostor )

I thought there were well over 10,000,0000 votes? and does this include the text votes?

The quote above is from the BB website, to me it sounds as if the voting count started afresh after Jade left, If this was the case it was not made clear to the voting public. I thought the voting numbers were odd as Pop Idol got more votes cast in 2 hours, the BB lines were open for a week.

If that is the case, then it's is a disgrace!! A lot of people would have been thinking well I've been voting for so and so all week, so they'll have plenty of votes and sat down to watch friends. I honestly didn't think the figures added up, considering the amount of multiple voting, taking that into account, would have meant only a few hundred thousand people voted out of 10 million viewers...just doesn't make sense.

The voting didn't restart, so people please stop reading too much into things.

The votes were all carried through to each subsequent round of voting.

That's alright then

I hope the votes didn't start again from each being evicted. I had my budget for votes and caste them at intervals during the week. If they did start again after each eviction that could explain how you can have viewing figures of 10 mil a day but only 8 mil votes total over a week when we know most vote more then once, some even building up massive phone bills.

Could also explain why when Jade was evicted she had 20% of the votes leaving only 80% between the last three but suddenly at the end Kate won with a massive majority. Alex was evicted at 27% leaving

I would love to see the figures for each eviction.

We know how many votes were cast overall, and that at the point at which Alex was evicted, he had 27.4% of the total votes for Alex, Jonny and Kate. Based on that, were had been 8.1m votes cast by the time Alex was evicted, and about another 0.5m cast in the last half hour.

Combine the various constraints and I can calculate that at the point that Alex was evicted, the percentage shares between Alex, Jonny and Kate were 27.4%, (27.4%-33.5%) and (39.0%-45.2%) respectively. I've placed Jonny and Kates shares in brackets since clearly we don't know the exact figures, which are based on their share of the 0.5m votes cast in the final half hour. If you assume that the relative popularity of Jonny vs Kate was roughly the same during the last half hour as the whole week overall, then the estimated percentage share between
Alex, Jonny and Kate at the time of the 2nd eviction was 27.4% for Alex, 30.4% for Jonny and 42.1% for Kate, which fall nicely in the middle of the ranges above.

Making the same (big) assumption about popularity not changing over the course of the final, the percentages at the first eviction can be estimated as:

Jade 20%
Alex 22%
Jonny 24.5%
Kate 33.5%
Last edited by TonyH : 29-07-2002 at 16:02

Does anyone the percentage/amount of votes Ginger Tim got when he was evicted? I'm guessing it had to be around 90% at least...maybe 99%... Hahahaha

Andy

It is very annoying that BB/Endemol haven't given us the voting figures for when Jade was evicted. When Alex was evicted. Afterall, they cost the voters a lot of money. Do they think people aren't interested, or is there some other reason they haven't been given out?

I was hoping to see more coverage on post BB too. I thought Dermot would be interviewing the final 4 on BBLB. What a let down?

It was 81% if I remember rightly. Though thought it would be lower as many Jonny/Kate/Jade supporters were voting tactfully and call out on the forums to get Alex out leaving the way clearer for the final.

Tim got about 84.5% of the vote. Some people were trying to vote Alex out though so it may possibly have been higher if not for that.

Thanks for that Tony. The only thing that might affect your percentages is that there was a source quoted as saying that Kate was at least 10% clear of the others at all stages during the week, so perhaps Jonny at 24% and Kate at 34% may be more accurate? Either way, it was definitely very close between the last three.

I find it very annoying that we haven't been given the breakdown of the votes at the various stages of the evictions on Friday night.

I suspect that the reason for this is that Endemol were trying to make out that the voting was very close on BBLB on Friday night in order to maximise telephone revenue (within 2-3% were the stated figures), when in fact Kate was well out in front.