1988 Worldcon Site Selection

Site Selection for the 1988 Worldcon was conducted by ConFederation, the 1986 Worldcon. (Due to a change in the lead time, site selection for the 1989 Worldcon was held at the same time.

There were four bidders, the Bermuda Triangle Bid, Cincinnati in '88, New Orleans in '88 and St. Louis in '88. There were two other bidders, Yugoslavia in '88 and Cleveland in 88, who did not file and were not on the site selection ballot.

The results were:

Bidder	Mail	At-Con	Total
New Orleans in '88	269	643	912
Bermuda Triangle Bid	189	236	425
Cincinnati in '88	100	149	249
St. Louis in '88	83	110	193
Sydney Cove in '88	5	11	16
None of the Above	3	12	15
No Preference	21	27	48
Void (Double votes, not member)	1	4	5
Total	671	1192	1863

New Orleans in '88 fell just slightly short of a majority on the first ballot and was elected once the None of the Above and Sydney Cove in '88 votes were redistributed.

• File 770 55, p. 6 (summary of bids as of Aussiecon 2)

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