Thanks, Ad. Yeah, say the quota is 100 and the candidate got 200 votes. The transfer value here is 50% = 100/200.
I believe all 200 votes are looked at to see the second position. Maybe that shows 100 with a second preference for B and 100 with a second preference for C.
Now the transfer value is multiplied by each set of second votes, so:
- candidate B will get 50%x100 =50 transferred votes. Same for candidate C.
And If candidate B later got eliminated you’d go back to this set of votes and look at third preferences on all 200 votes for A and the transfer value would be 50% (the excess) x 50% (because B had gotten the same transfers as C). You’d multiply that by the sets of 3rd rank choices of candidate A’s original votes.
In Act 3 (single transferable vote), how do you determine which is an excess vote vs. a non-excess? As I understand it, the ones deemed excess are the ones that get their second votes redistributed.
Thanks, Ad. Yeah, say the quota is 100 and the candidate got 200 votes. The transfer value here is 50% = 100/200.
I believe all 200 votes are looked at to see the second position. Maybe that shows 100 with a second preference for B and 100 with a second preference for C.
Now the transfer value is multiplied by each set of second votes, so:
- candidate B will get 50%x100 =50 transferred votes. Same for candidate C.
And If candidate B later got eliminated you’d go back to this set of votes and look at third preferences on all 200 votes for A and the transfer value would be 50% (the excess) x 50% (because B had gotten the same transfers as C). You’d multiply that by the sets of 3rd rank choices of candidate A’s original votes.
Thanks for the summary, Ro. A question:
In Act 3 (single transferable vote), how do you determine which is an excess vote vs. a non-excess? As I understand it, the ones deemed excess are the ones that get their second votes redistributed.