Single Transferable Vote

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NI Assembly

Local govt NI & Scotland

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Logistics

  1. Voter ranks each candidate

  2. First preferences counted and any candidates that reached the Droop quota are elected

  3. Their additional votes then counted according to subsequent preferences, elected if reach Droop quota

  4. If no one reaches the droop quota, the candidate with the fewest votes has their votes redistributed in order of preference and they’re eliminated etc. until all seats filled

NI made up of 18 large, multimember constituencies

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2021 NI Assembly election

V. close correlation between % of votes and % of seats- all votes of equal value, less incentive to vote tactically

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Issues- spoilt ballots

2011- EONI rejected more than 12 000 ballot papers as spoilt

2016- new ballot paper style introduced

2016- reduction in spoilt ballots to 9 425 (mainly due to mismarked ballots)

Number of rejected ballots in STV more than 2x that of FPTP Westminster elections

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Impact of STV on turnout in NI

2016- turnout 64.8% (highest since first assembly election in 1998)

95% of respondents to the electoral commission’s survey found their ballot paper easy to fill in