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As of the time of this post, there are still a handful of small towns that haven't reported, so it's not an exact science. That said, I think I'm ready to call this race.
In the contest between which self-funder got the most bang for his buck, the winner is clear: Jim Bender.
So far, Bender earned 12,431 votes, while spending $1,549,050 of his fortune purchasing candidate viability. That means it cost Bender roughly $125 per vote.
Bill Binnie, on the other hand, wasted a whopping $5,337,594 of his own treasure. However, he got a meaningfully higher - if not electorally important - vote count of 19,151. That puts his one vote purchase price at about $279.
For less than half the price-per-vote ratio of Binnie, Bender kept within 5 percentage points of him. Well done!
