This is a Toy (I am NOT telling you how to vote)
Rather arrogantly, a month ago, I took on the challenge of trying to make a model to help explain how the Single Transferable Vote system works. As it turns out, the maths is easy, trying to make it visually pleasing and self explanatory is hard. I finally came up with this: an array of pre-filled ballots, representing groups of voter selections across the political spectrum, and one for you to fill out and excersise your current "if I ruled the world" fantasy.

There are a variety of STV systems in operation around the globe. Some are tweaks to make single candidate-small electorates (quickly) countable by hand, some are trying to be pure count/recount machines to efficiently analyse the electorates choices and convert that to representation, but all give very similar results.

In this simulation you have a lot of power. Simply stated, in this model your first choice will win. What's interesting is how your ranking votes (2,3,4...) influence how your excess gets transfered. The result Rounds are displayed under the ballots and the story is displayed under that.

This is a PUP... Programming (under pressure) and subject to change without apology. I'd like your help - persistence is appreciated. Ballots were randomly generated and mean nothing.

There are 8 Candidates for 4 Seats & 100,000 votes = 20,001 to win. Hit Calculate, with or without your ballot, when ready. Nerds: Droop Quota