On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Juho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any statistics from real STV-PR elections on how many votes (sum > of fragments) run out of candidates during the counting process?
The easiest way to see that is to look at how many votes are remaing to the last count. Taking Limerick East as an example: http://electionsireland.org/counts.cfm?election=2007&cons=159&ref= After the last count, the totals were: Willie O'Dea: 8,230 Peter Power: 8,230 Michael Noonan: 8,230 Jan O'Sullivan: 9,051 Kieran O'Donnell: 6,966 Tim O'Malley: 5,776 Total: 46,483 Total valid poll: 49,375 Percentage votes remaining at least count: 94.1% This shows that most vote strength remained until the end. However, it does show the issue with not readjusting the quota. O'Donnell was elected with only 6966 votes, while everyone else needed a full quota. Ofc, perhaps, O'Sullivan's transfers may have all ended up with him as there was a FG/Lab voting pact. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
