Big Brother has removed 379 houseguests across twenty-eight seasons and Over the Top. Most of them went out on a house vote, and the count survives for 284 of those. Laid end to end, those 284 votes answer a set of questions the show itself never addresses: how often the house actually agrees, how close it has ever been, which seasons were landslides and which were knife fights, and what happens in the weeks where nobody votes at all.
- Total exits: 379, across BB1–BB28 and Over the Top.
- House votes with a recorded count: 284.
- Unanimous, five or more voting: 66 — roughly one week in four.
- Closest full-house vote: 7–6.
- Biggest unanimous vote: 14–0.
- Most anyone has evicted as HOH in one season: four. Eight houseguests are tied.
- Evicted twice in one season: 12 houseguests. None of them won.
- Left with no vote at all: 12 — expulsions, walks, premiere removals and two competition eliminations.
How often is the Big Brother vote unanimous?
About one house vote in four. Of the 284 evictions with a recorded count, 66 were unanimous with at least five houseguests voting.
That figure climbs to 42 per cent if you count the endgame, but those late votes are unanimous by arithmetic rather than agreement. When four people are left and one of them is voting, a 1–0 result says nothing about the house.
The largest ones are mostly week one, for the obvious reason that the room is fullest then:
- 14–0 — Ashley, Big Brother 28, week one. The largest on record.
- 13–0 — Joey in BB16, Keesha in BB22 and Kirsten in BB25, all week one. Amy in BB27, week two.
- 12–0 — Ovi in BB21, Pooch in BB24, Reilly in BB25.
What is not true is that the house agrees more in week one. First evictions are unanimous 26 per cent of the time; every other week comes in at 23 per cent. The early votes are bigger, not friendlier. A twelve-person house sending someone out 12–0 looks decisive on the screen, but proportionally it is the same house that later goes 5–0 with half as many people in it.
The first unanimous vote from a full house came on 16 July 2003, when Big Brother 4 sent Amanda out 9–0.
Has the house got more agreeable over time?
Somewhat, and then it stopped.
- Big Brother 1–9, 2000 to 2008 — 62 votes, 18 per cent unanimous.
- Big Brother 10–18, 2008 to 2016 — 99 votes, 28 per cent.
- Big Brother 19–28, 2017 to 2026 — 114 votes, 24 per cent.
The jump between the first era and the second is the arrival of the big controlling alliance — the Brigade, the Quack Pack, the Hitmen. When one group holds the numbers, the vote stops being a decision and becomes a formality, and the stragglers vote with the block rather than be seen not to.
The modern era has come back down slightly. Six seasons never produced a single full-house unanimous vote at all: Big Brother 3, 5, 11, 14 and 26, and Over the Top. Every week of those seasons had at least one person voting the other way.
What is the closest eviction vote in Big Brother history?
7–6 — Steve, Big Brother 20, week one. Thirteen houseguests voting, decided by one, in the first week of the season before anyone had a read on anybody.
Seventeen evictions have come down to a single vote with seven or more people voting:
- 7–6 — Steve, BB20 week 1.
- 6–5 — Braden, BB11 week 1. Winston, BB20 week 3.
- 5–4 — Eric in BB6, Bronte in BB18, Rachel in BB20, Rylie in BB27, and Monte and Shane in Over the Top.
- 4–3 — Scott and Will in BB5, Kail in BB8, Matt in BB9, Jessie in BB10, Ronnie in BB11, Joseph in BB26, Neeley in Over the Top.
Big Brother 20 owns three of the seventeen, including the closest, and two of them landed in the first three weeks. That is backwards from how a season normally runs.
Has a Big Brother vote ever actually tied?
Yes, though it is rare enough that the show goes years between them.
The clearest one on the record is Big Brother 2, where Bunky went out after a tie-breaker — Monica voting to evict Will, Nicole voting to evict Bunky, and the Head of Household breaking it. Big Brother 3 produced another when Marcellas was evicted, though the surviving records describe the moment without preserving the numbers.
Ties get rarer as the house shrinks in odd numbers, and the modern format is built to avoid them: the HOH does not vote, the nominees do not vote, and the arithmetic usually leaves an odd number in the chairs. When it does not, the HOH decides — which is the one moment in a normal week when the person in power has to say a name out loud, in front of everybody, with no vote to hide behind. The eviction vote page has the full tie procedure.
The most and least contested seasons
Average the margin of every full-house vote in a season and the seasons separate sharply.
Big Brother 20 is the most genuinely contested season on record — an average margin of 3.8 across ten votes, with three of the closest seventeen results in the show’s history. Big Brother 14 is close behind at 3.9. Both were seasons where the house never settled into one bloc.
Big Brother 25 is the most one-sided — an average margin of 8.2 across eleven votes, the widest of any season with a meaningful sample. Big Brother 16 sits at 7.4, Big Brother 23 and 24 at 6.8. Those are seasons where the outcome was known by Tuesday and the vote was a formality.
Over the Top, Big Brother 5 and Big Brother 11 all average lower than BB20, but each has only five countable votes — too few to put beside a season with ten or eleven.
Who has sent the most houseguests home?
Nobody has ever presided over more than four evictions in a single season, and eight houseguests are tied at that ceiling:
- Drew, Big Brother 5. Hayden, Big Brother 12. Rachel, Big Brother 13.
- Frank and Ian, both in Big Brother 14 — the only season to produce two.
- Aaryn, Big Brother 15. Caleb, Big Brother 16. Vanessa, Big Brother 17.
The ceiling is structural rather than a matter of skill. An outgoing HOH cannot play for the next one, so even a dominant competitor can only hold the room every other week — and a twelve-week season only has so many other weeks in it.
Double and triple evictions
Twenty-one seasons have run at least one double. The first was on 2 September 2004, when Big Brother 5 sent out Adria — one half of that season’s twin twist — in the opening round.
They are not scattered randomly. Weeks seven and ten account for most of them, sixteen each, with week six next at twelve. The show puts a double where the jury is forming and again where the field needs thinning before finale night, and it almost never puts one before week six or after week twelve.
Four seasons have run four doubles apiece: Big Brother 6, 7, 14 and 15.
There has been exactly one triple eviction. On 1 October 2020, Big Brother 22 put Kevin, David and Dani out in a single night. It has not been repeated.
Who has been evicted twice in the same season?
Twelve houseguests have gone out, come back through a return twist, and gone out again.
- Amy, Big Brother 3 — the first, years before the format had a name for it.
- Kaysar in BB6, James in BB9, Brendon in BB13, Judd in BB15.
- Nicole in BB16, Johnny Mac in BB17, Victor in BB18, Cody in BB19.
- Scottie in BB20, Cliff in BB21, Cameron in BB25.
None of them won. Twelve second chances, twelve second evictions. Coming back through the door has never once been the start of a winning game, which is worth knowing before the next season sells a return twist as a lifeline.
The exits with no vote at all
Twelve houseguests have left without the house ever voting, in four different ways.
- Expelled by production — five. Justin in BB2, Scott in BB4, Chima in BB11, Willie in BB14, Luke in BB25. The expulsions page has each of them in full.
- Walked — two. Megan in BB19 and Paloma in BB24, both within the opening days.
- Removed on premiere night — three. Jodi in BB14, Glenn in BB18 and David in BB21 were gone before the first eviction, under twists that took the decision out of the house’s hands.
- Eliminated by a competition — two. Rachel in BB27, on a safety chain that ran out of chain. Haley in BB28, during a three-day feed blackout.
The last category is new. Until Big Brother 27, leaving without a vote meant someone had broken a rule or quit. Losing a competition and going home the same night is a different thing entirely, and it has now happened in consecutive seasons — which makes it a format change rather than an accident.
How these numbers were counted
Every figure comes from a week-by-week register of all 379 exits, built from coverage written at the time rather than from later summaries.
Big Brother 1 is the one season with no vote data at all. All nine exits that summer were decided by the audience on a phone line, and the percentages were never published. Big Brother 2 is the opposite case: nine of its ten results survive with counts, but the dates do not, because the only surviving records are later re-captures of the original recaps.
Final-four and final-three evictions are excluded from every vote statistic on this page. Those are one person deciding, not a house.