#popepoll

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The pope poll winner is known! Congratulations to Matteo Zuppi for winning the tumblr vote, which is the most important vote of all

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If you were curious, Robert Francis Prevost didn't even make it out of the first round of the pope poll, I just checked my excel sheet

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the only one who deserves to be pope is luigi mangione

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Round 2 – You have already picked a few favourites so now we can truly start with the brackets. Polls still run for a day. Due to a few ties and mistakes in the previous round, a few more cardinals went through than expected but that shouldn’t make too much of a difference.

Pierbattista Pizzaballa goes straight through to the next round because he had a LOT of votes and I had an uneven nr of cardinals.

Propaganda is encouraged for your favourite cardinals (as are any artistic endeavours of course), but please don't insult each other.

Consider locking yourself in a room while you vote to make it seem more real All posts can be found under #popepoll

Round 2 - 1

Francesco Coccopalmerio

Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda

Voting ended onMay 1, 2025

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Round 1 - It is time to vote for your favourite cardinals and see who should win the pope vote according to the tumblr population. Every poll runs for a day. The first round will be 8 cardinals each (except 1 poll because maths) and after that there will be 2 cardinals per poll. In the first round, the 2 most voted cardinals per poll will continue. Propaganda is encouraged for your favourite cardinals (as are any artistic endeavours of course), but please don't insult each other.

Consider locking yourself in a room while you vote to make it seem more real All posts can be found under #popepoll

Round 1 - 2

Beniamino Stella

Luis Antonio Tagle

Robert Francis Prevost

Bechara Boutros al-Rahi

Louis Raphaël I Sako

Michael Michai Kitbunchu

Paul Poupard

Friedrich Wetter

Voting ended onApr 30, 2025

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Pope poll FAQ

Welcome to the Fantasy Conclave of Tumblr!

In the first round there are 8 or 4 candidates per poll and then 2 or 1 (respectively) cardinals will continue to the next round

Propaganda is allowed!

+80 yo cardinals can't vote but can be elected (even if unlikely)

All polls can be found under #popepoll

Polls run for 24 hrs so we can hopefully finish up by the start of the real conclave

I will make summaries on the cardinals for the last few rounds but I can't do that for 250+ cardinals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_cardinals

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Round 3 – Welcome back to the best fantasy conclave on the internet! Here YOU get to choose who the next pope will be.

We are down to 34 candidates! We are narrowing down for sure...

Propaganda is still encouraged for your favourite cardinals (as are any artistic endeavours of course), but please don't insult each other.

Consider locking yourself in a room while you vote to make it seem more real

All posts can be found under #popepoll

Round 3 - 1

Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel

Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez

Voting ended onMay 2, 2025

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How did Robert Prevost do in the Pope poll?

Very badly! He dropped off in Round 1 with 1% but in his defence he was up against Tagle