What this is
How spread out fan votes were in the global Pokémon of the Year 2020 poll: the top 10 creatures got only 12.3% of 6.6m votes; Pikachu came 19th with 0.7%.
How it’s built
- Took the vote counts for each rank from The Pokémon Company International's results page, and the 6,608,215 total from two press reports.
- Added the top 10 (812,580) and divided by the total; did the same for Pikachu's 48,060.
What we assumed
- The vote measures keen fans, not the mass market.People could vote up to eight times a day, so it reflects intensity of enthusiasm.
- Ranks 5 to 9 are read correctly.They were read once from the official page; the top-10 list and its ends were confirmed by a separate English report.
Sanity check
The total comes from two independent press reports that agree. Popularity in a poll is not sales.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
- ReportedGreninja won the global Pokémon of the Year 2020 poll with 140,559 votes140,559 votes
- ReportedGengar received 60,214 votes in the global Pokémon of the Year 2020 poll, coming 10th60,214 votes
- ReportedPokémon of the year 2020 votes, Pokemon of the Year 2020 (vote 5 February 2020 to 14 February 2020)140,559 votes
- ReportedUmbreon received 67,062 votes in the global Pokémon of the Year 2020 poll, coming 5th67,062 votes
- ReportedTop10 Pokémon of the year 2020, Pokemon of the Year 2020 (vote 5 February 2020 to 14 February 2020)10 count of listed
- ReportedPokémon of the Year 2020 total votes, Pokémon of the Year 20206,608,215 votes
Show the working
- Total votes: 6,608,215
- Top10 votes: 812,580
- Top10 share: 12.3%
- Outside top10 share: 87.7%
- Top4 double pass votes: 435,863
- Top4 share: 6.6%
- top 10 = 140,559 + 102,259 + 99,077 + 93,968 + 67,062 + 66,029 + 61,877 + 60,939 + 60,596 + 60,214 = 812,580
- 812,580 / 6,608,215 = 12.30%
- 100 − 12.30 = 87.70%
- top 4 = 435,863 / 6,608,215 = 6.60%
- 140,559 / 6,608,215 = 2.13%
- 60,214 / 6,608,215 = 0.91%
- 48,060 / 6,608,215 = 0.727%
- 48,060 / 140,559 = 0.342