Counting votes using ERS97 STV. There are 7 candidates competing for 5 seats. The number of votes is 210 and there were 204 valid votes.
The bar charts below show the vote counts for each candidate in each round. Place the mouse over a bar to see the number of votes.
A candidate's votes in a round is the sum of the yellow and green bars. Since the green and red bars represent votes being transferred, the sum of the green and red bars is the same.
The exhausted bar represents votes where the voter did not indicate a next preference and thus there were no candidates to transfer the vote to. The threshold bar (where shown) indicates the number of votes that ensures that a candidate will win a seat.
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Count of first choices. The initial quota is 34.00. Candidate Janet Gifford has reached the threshold and is elected. Candidates have surplus votes so surplus votes will be transferred for the next round.
Count after transferring surplus votes from Janet Gifford. Candidates Graham Gifford and Ria Higham have reached the threshold and are elected. Candidates have surplus votes so surplus votes will be transferred for the next round.
Count after transferring surplus votes from Graham Gifford. Candidate John Pearson has reached the threshold and is elected. Candidates have surplus votes so surplus votes will be transferred for the next round.
Count after transferring surplus votes from John Pearson. Candidates have surplus votes so surplus votes will be transferred for the next round.
Count after transferring surplus votes from Ria Higham. No candidates have surplus votes so candidates will be eliminated and their votes transferred for the next round.
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All losing candidates are eliminated. Count after substage 1 of 5 of eliminating Re-Open Nominations. Transferred votes with value 1.00. Candidate Phil Pope has reached the threshold and is elected.
Winners are Graham Gifford, Janet Gifford, Ria Higham, John Pearson, and Phil Pope.