Electoral

AMS in Scotland 2021

SNP won 64/129 MSPs, one short of majority. Greens won 8.Turnout 63.5percent, highest. 2021 Holyrood

STV Northern Ireland 2022

2022 assembly chose 90 representatives across 18 five member constituency with 64 per cent turnout. Fein won 27, DUP 25. Alliance benefitted as grew to 17 seats

SV case studies

move mayoral and PCC elections from SV to FPTP in its 2022 Elections Bill.

The Labour politician won 43.8% which was enough to secure him a third term under the new First Past the Post system, won most of the seats

-Khan was re-elected in 2021, in an election delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic, winning 55% of the vote after second preference votes were counted.

AMS

Half seats  

1st day for constituency representative, second for fav party. Half seats is for the ones that won the first vote, second half is to fix it to be better proportional 

Political parties make list of fav candidates to least to get the extra seats. 

STV

few representatives per bigger constituecy 
Parties need a minimum amount to win as a representative for constituency 

Voters rank the representatives/parties 

If I party wins but others don’t have enough, last place is disqualified and the second/third choice voters of the losers voted for is added onto it and the extra votes the wining party may have had. This continues until Parties representatives are chosen.

SV

Rank candidates from most fav to least, loser is eliminated and votes transferred to second, this goes on until someone gets majority/wins