Extra: STV Election Walkthrough
Footnote to PitAK: STV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI Also, STICKERS! http://goo.gl/eUAQid.
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In the main video, I went through a couple of quick little examples of STV elections, but in this extra video, I want to take a bigger election and go through it in a little bit more depth so that you can see how an STV election unfolds. In this case we are going to have 10 candidates, and there are going to be five seats for representative open. So that means each candidate needs to get 20% to win. So citizens go off to the polls and their first choice results come in as follows: Tarsier gets 5% Gorilla gets 32% Silverback gets 3% Owl gets 33% Turtle gets 1% Snake gets 1% Tiger gets 16% Lynx gets 4% Jackelope gets 2% and Buffalo gets 3%. Now what we can see here is a situation that is very often the case in real elections with STV That there are two or three parties with a lot of support --in this case Gorilla, Owl, and Tiger-- and t...
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In the main video, I went through a couple of quick little examples of STV elections, but in this extra video, I want to take a bigger election and go through it in a little bit more depth so that you can see how an STV election unfolds. In this case we are going to have 10 candidates, and there are going to be five seats for representative open. So that means each candidate needs to get 20% to win. So citizens go off to the polls and their first choice results come in as follows: Tarsier gets 5% Gorilla gets 32% Silverback gets 3% Owl gets 33% Turtle gets 1% Snake gets 1% Tiger gets 16% Lynx gets 4% Jackelope gets 2% and Buffalo gets 3%. Now what we can see here is a situation that is very often the case in real elections with STV That there are two or three parties with a lot of support --in this case Gorilla, Owl, and Tiger-- and t...
