 Candidate \(D\) is the Hare Rule winner: In the first round, candidate \(C\) is eliminated since she is only ranked first by 3 voters. This group’s votes are transferred to \(D\), giving him 7 votes. This means that in the second round, candidate \(B\) is ranked first by the fewest voters (5 voters rank \(B\) first in the profile with candidate \(C\) removed), and so is eliminated. After the elimination of candidate \(B\), candidate \(D\) has a strict majority of the first-place votes: 12 voters ranking him first (note that in this round the group in the second column transfers all their votes to \(D\) since \(C\) was eliminated in an earlier round). 