Elimination Chart
Note: Bottom 2 indicates that the contestant was 'saved' last. This may or may not indicate his or her actual vote rank. Sometimes, Seacrest will announce that the contestant is in the bottom 2, sometimes he will not. On the March 22 show, only the bottom 2 were announced.
| Female | Male | Top 24 | Top 12 | Winner |
| Safe | Top 3 | Safe First | Safe Last | Eliminated |
| Stage: | Semi-Finals | Finals | ||||||||||||||
| Week: | 2/22 | 3/1 | 3/8 | 3/14 | 3/21 | 3/28 | 4/4 | 4/11 | 4/18 | 4/251 | 5/2 | 5/9 | 5/16 | 5/23 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Place | Contestant | Result | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | Jordin Sparks | Top 3 | Winner | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Blake Lewis | Bottom 3 | Runner-Up | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Melinda Doolittle | Top 3 | Elim | |||||||||||||
| 4 | LaKisha Jones | Top 3 | Bottom 2 | Elim | ||||||||||||
| 5-6 | Chris Richardson | Bottom 2 | Bottom 3 | Elim | ||||||||||||
| Phil Stacey | Bottom 3 | Bottom 3 | Bottom 3 | Bottom 2 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Sanjaya Malakar | Bottom 2 | Elim | |||||||||||||
| 8 | Haley Scarnato | Bottom 2 | Bottom 2 | Elim | ||||||||||||
| 9 | Gina Glocksen | Elim | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | Chris Sligh | Elim | ||||||||||||||
| 11 | Stephanie Edwards | Elim | ||||||||||||||
| 12 | Brandon Rogers | Elim | ||||||||||||||
| 13-16 | Sundance Head | Elim | ||||||||||||||
| Sabrina Sloan | ||||||||||||||||
| Antonella Barba | ||||||||||||||||
| Jared Cotter | ||||||||||||||||
| 17-20 | Leslie Hunt | Elim | ||||||||||||||
| A.J. Tabaldo | ||||||||||||||||
| Alaina Alexander | ||||||||||||||||
| Nicholas Pedro | ||||||||||||||||
| 21-24 | Rudy Cardenas | Elim | ||||||||||||||
| Nicole Tranquillo | ||||||||||||||||
| Amy Krebs | ||||||||||||||||
| Paul Kim | ||||||||||||||||
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