2018 Worldcon Site Selection

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Site Selection for the 2018 Worldcon was conducted by the 2016 Worldcon, MidAmeriCon II, in Kansas City, MO.

The bidders were New Orleans in 2018 and San Jose in 2018.

There was 1321 ballot cast of which 1301 were valid ballots. Thus 651 votes were required to win. San Jose in 2018 got 675 ballots on the first round and was the winner.

Bidder Mail Wed Thur Fri TOTAL
New Orleans in 2018 49 74 176 295 594
San Jose in 2018 82 121 209 263 675
None of the Above 1 0 3 0 4
Invalid ballots 3 1 0 0 4
Xerps in 2010 0 2 0 0 2
Weehawken, NJ 2 0 0 0 2
Minneapolis in '73 1 0 0 0 1
Traincon '18 on the Canadian 0 0 3 0 3
Peggy Rae's House 0 0 4 1 5
Highmore, SD 0 0 1 1 2
I95 in 95 0 0 1 0 1
Slab City 0 0 1 0 1
San Juan 0 0 0 1 1
Billings in 2018 0 0 0 2 2
Reykjavik 0 0 0 1 1
Michael Nelson's House 0 0 0 1 1
Yoyodyne Systems 0 0 0 1 1
Minneapolis in 2073 0 0 0 1 1
Total with Preference 138 198 398 567 1301
No Preference 2 3 5 10 20
Total valid votes 140 201 403 577 1321

Because the 2017 Worldcon, Worldcon 75, took place at Helsinki in Finland, MidAmeriCon II also conducted the 2017 NASFiC site selection.


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