The first-round winner in Santa Fe was also the ultimate winner of the election, but results don't always shake out so neatly. After the first round of the 10-candidate Oakland, Calif., 2010 mayor’s race, conservative Democratic former state senate president Don Perata had 34 percent of the vote for a comfortable lead over the second-place candidate, city councilwoman Jean Quan, who had 25 percent of the vote. But Quan had played nicer during the campaign with the other “anybody but Don” candidates, according to news reports, and after nine elimination rounds she squeaked to victory over Perata with 51 percent of the vote.