With the controversy around the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2011 awards having no women shortlisted, but a couple of men who have done next to nothing all year, I thought I’d work out the exact voting results from the jounalists who nominate people, based on the BBC data.

You can see the full table below. The short version is that quite a few women got a couple of votes, and Rebecca Adlington came joint 11th with 6 votes, but it seems that journalists don’t watch many women in sport.

There were also far too many journalists wasting their votes on embarrassing votes like the Manchester Evening News voting for Dimitar Berbatov and the retired Patrick Viera, and the Daily Star Sunday voting for Lewis Hamilton after the worst year of his career, and that’s what I really find interesting about these results.

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