Maverick Magazine Exclusive: The 50 Hottest Women Alive - 2006 Edition

And the winner is
you'll have to read to find out

So last week I decided to do my own world's sexiest poll. The turnout was pretty good. The original LJ post had some 170 comments before I was a dumbass and erased them all. Luckily, I had saved all the votes. There were another 25 on the repost, and the myspace crosspost had another 12. Each voter was allowed to vote for up to 10 women with 10 points being awarded to their number 1 choice, 9 for number 2, all the way down to 1 for number 10. In all, 53 ballots were cast with 437 votes for a total of 2587 points. In all, 218 different women were named. In the end the women were ranked by number of points with ties being broken by number of votes. And if there was still a tie, it was simply allowed to remain.

And now the results:

Honorable mentions must be given to Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shirley Manson, Lindsay Lohan and Mena Suvari, all of whom tied for 51st place with 12 points and 2 votes.

50. Mia Kirshnir (actress, 24, The L Word) - 12 points, 3 votes
46. Reese Witherspoon (actress, Legally Blonde, Freeway) - 13 points, 2 votes
46. Summer Glau (actress, Firefly, Serenity) - 13 points, 2 votes
46. Michelle Pfeiffer (actress, Grease 2, Dangerous Minds) - 13 points, 2 votes
46. Jenniffer Connelly (actress. The Rocketeer, Labyrinth) - 13 points, 2 votes
45. Eva Longoria (actress, Desperate Housewives) - 13 points, 3 votes
43. Amy Lee (musician, Evanescence) - 14 points, 2 votes
43. Grace Park (actress, Battlestar Galactica) - 14 points, 2 votes
41. Sandra Bullock (actress, Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man & The Bionic Woman, Miss Congeniality 2) - 14 points, 3 votes
41. Morena Baccarin (actress, Firefly, Serenity) - 14 points, 3 votes
38. Christina Aguilera (musician) - 15 points, 2 votes
38. Stacy Kiebler (wrestling diva) - 15 points, 2 votes
38. Jessica Biel (actress, 7th Heaven, Blade: Trinity) - 15 points, 2 votes
37. Eva Mendes (actress, My Brother the Pig. Children of the Corn V) - 16 points, 2 votes
36. Mariska Hargitay (actress, Law & Order: SVU) - 16 points, 3 votes
35. Christy Hemme (wrestling diva) - 17 points, 3 votes
33. Gwen Stefani (musician, No Doubt) - 18 points, 2 votes
33. Helena Bonham Carter (actress, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Hamlet) - 18 points, 2 votes
32. Ashley Massaro (wrestling diva) - 18 points, 4 votes
29. Fairuza Balk (actress, Valmont, Return to Oz) - 19 points, 2 votes
29. Kate Moennig (actress, The L Word) - 19 points, 2 votes
29. Audrey Tatou (actress, Amelie, Dirty Pretty Things) - 19 points, 2 votes
27. Drew Barrymore (actress, E.T., Titan A.E.) - 19 points, 3 votes
27. Rachel Weisz (actress, the Mummy, The Mummy Returns) - 19 points, 3 votes
26. Sarah Shahi (actress, the L Word, Teachers) - 20 points, 3 votes

25. Kirsten Dunst (actress, Spiderman, Interview With The Vampire) - 20 points, 5 votes	24. Ziyi Zhang (actress, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha) - 21 points, 5 votes	23. Kate Winslet (actress, Titanic, Quills) - 23 points, 3 votes	22. Kari Byron (artist/host, Myth Busters) - 25 points, 4 votes	21. Charlize Theron (actress, Aeon Flux, Mighty Joe Young) - 26 points, 4 votes
20. Monica Bellucci (model/actress, Matrix Reloaded) - 28 points, 4 votes	19. Christina Ricci (actress, The Opposite of Sex, Addams Family Values) - 28 points, 5 votes	18. mamarayne (my mom) - 30 points, 3 votes	17. Salma Hayek (actress, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Dogma) - 31 points, 5 votes	16. Natalie Portman (actress, Mars Attacks, Heat) - 32 points, 8 votes
15. Cristina Scabbia (musician, Lacuna Coil) - 36 points, 6 votes	14. Nicole Kidman (actress, Practical Magic, Batman Forever) - 37 points, 6 votes	13. Catherine Zeta-Jones (actress, Entrapment, The Phantom) - 40 points, 8 votes	12. Alyson Hannigan (actress, How I met Your Mother, Date Movie) - 43 points, 6 votes	11. Halle Berry (actress/SI measuring unit, CB4, B*A*P*S) - 43 points, 7 votes

10. Milla Jovovich (model/actress/musician, Two Moon Junction, Dazed and Confused) - 47 points, 6 votes	9. Winona Ryder (actress, Alien: Resurrection, S1m0ne) - 47 points, 7 votes	8. Jessica Alba (actress, Honey, Idle Hands) - 48 points, 8 votes
7. Lucy Liu (actress, Joey, Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human) - 56 points, 9 votes	6. Eliza Dushku (actress, Tru Calling, Wrong Turn) - 59 points, 8 votes	5. Carmen Electra (actress/model/dancer/musician, Raven: The Chosen One, Mating Habits of the Earth Bound Human) - 61 points, 10 votes
4. Shakira (musician) - 66 points, 10 votes	3. Kiera Knightley (actress, Star Wars Episode 1, Domino) - 90 points, 15 votes	2. Angelina Jolie (actress, Gia, Hackers) - 114 points, 14 votes

1. Scarlett Johansson

(actress, Home Alone 3, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie) - 126 points, 16 votes

So now I am curious as to how people think this worked out. My main thought here was that because I probably have a more varied (albeit smaller) readership than the magazines that usually do this sort of thing (Maxim, People, US Weekly, etc) that I'd end up with a slightly more varied, but still relatively representative list. That is to say, no one would pick the entire top 10 (or 25), but people would be relatively pleased with it. So I ask you, the collective consciousness. Does this list make sense? Was it an interesting exercise? One of the things I find interesting is that although I've heard many people complain about lists like this lacking a certain type of woman (or man in the male versions), I think the people who bubble to the top were relatively non-controversial. That is, I think that if the top 10 list were presented to the American public at large, they would probably believe that the list was put together in a legitmate survey (such that Maxim, et al purport to do) instead of a 53 person web survey.

Anyway, I'm curious as to anyone's thoughts. And thank you all for playing.