Title: Wrong percentage
Last modified: January 29, 2017

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# Wrong percentage

 *  Resolved [forprofile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forprofile/)
 * (@forprofile)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-percentage/)
 * Hello!
 * I use this plugin for one of my sites, but the members noticed something. The
   percentage of the votes is wrong. The total is not 100% which should be. In some
   polls is 116%, in others 250% etc.
 * Here are the printscreens: [http://i.imgur.com/8qcrsCI.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/8qcrsCI.jpg)(
   the poll results)
    [http://i.imgur.com/XUsrPTC.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/XUsrPTC.jpg)(
   the comment from a member)
 * What should I do? I check other polls with more choices and the total percentage
   is more than 250%. O_O

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 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-percentage/#post-8714127)
 * If you allow multiple options to be selected, it will never be 100%.
 * For poll with multiple answers selection, we should divide it by the voters. 
   For single answer poll, total votes == total voters.
 * Some discussion [https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-polls/pull/73](https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-polls/pull/73)
 *  Thread Starter [forprofile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forprofile/)
 * (@forprofile)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-percentage/#post-8714422)
 * For multiple option answers, shouldn’t the total be still 100%?
 *  It should be divided by the numbers of votes not by the numbers of voters. It
   makes no sense if the total percentage exceeds 100%, that is even hilarious. 
   Who would even want to check a poll which doesn’t display the correct percentages
   of votes?
 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-percentage/#post-8718286)
 * To be honest, this has always been the plugin behavior for more than a decade.
   I have no idea why no one brought it out to debate till recently.
 * I have make the fix, you can try downloading the zip [https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-polls/archive/master.zip](https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-polls/archive/master.zip)
   and overwrite it on your server. Let me know if it works =)
 *  Thread Starter [forprofile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forprofile/)
 * (@forprofile)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-percentage/#post-8718421)
 * Thanks a lot! You rock!
 * Now the poll it’s much better! 😀

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