1967 Worldcon Site Selection

Site Selection for the right to run the 1967 Worldcon was conducted by Tricon, the 1966 Worldcon by a vote held at the WSFS Business meeting at Tricon. There were four bidders:

• Boston in '67 (speaker: Dave Vanderwerf)
• Baltimore in '67 (speaker: Ron Bounds, seconder: Roger Zelazny)
• Syracuse in '67 (speaker: Dave Kyle, seconder: Ron Ellik)
• New York in 1967 (speaker: Ted White, seconder: Harlan Ellison)

Bidder	1st Ballot	2nd Ballot	Final ballot
New York in 1967	158	214	250
Syracuse in '67	115	149	201
Baltimore in '67	97	91
Boston in '67	28
Total	398	454	451

The bidders counting ballots during the WSFS BM. Ben Jason in white shirt, arms folded, and George Scithers, behind podium and microphone).
(Photo by and copyright Andrew Porter.)

Note that this was not done by means of a Transferable Preferential Ballot like today, but by three separate votes on the floor of the Business meeting, thus accounting for Baltimore in '67's loss of six votes from round one to round two. Also note that more than fifty additional people voted in the second round -- more people came into the room (probably someone rousted them from down in the bar.)

New York in 1967 was declared the (rather stunned, by contemporary reports) winner and went on to run NyCon III.

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