First: The LimeSurvey statistics is just to have a quick glance at the results. Here you see which objects were ranked first with which frequency, or ranked last. All further calculations you will do in your statistic tool.
And which answer is the most common or frequent? Would that be the first table?
There is no simple answer.
Let me explain by ranking products.
You get this data table.
The first column shows the products ranked first.
You see "Product 3" is ranked first 3 times, more than all others.
But is it the best product? It is ranked last 3 times, too. So the opinion about this product is very ambivalent.
To analyze your results, this way to display the ranks is not the best.
To find out the overall rank of each product you have to calculate the middle rank, the mean of the ranks.
So in your analyzing tool you should restructure the table to
The columns now show the rank of one product.
Now you can calculate all statistical tests to find out which one is ranked best, is there a significant difference between the products
As shown you might get the same mean for several products
There are products which are either loved or hated (many times first place, but also many times last place)
Other products are more or less boring, uninteresting (ranked in the middle)
Now you may calculate the standard deviation of the product ranks.
Here you see that the opinions about "Product3" are more equivocal than about "Product2"
And even if you see a difference ("Product1" vs. "Product2") this might be of no significant meaning.
The t-test shows this.
Joffm