Single Transferable Vote

The Single Transferable Vote, or STV, is a preferential voting system designed to minimise wasted votes and provide proportional representation in multi-candidate elections while ensuring that votes are explicitly for candidates rather than party lists. STV systems achieve this by initially allocating an individual's vote to their most preferred candidate and then subsequently transferring unneeded or unused votes after candidates are either elected or eliminated according to the voter's stated preferences.

External links

• pSTV -- software for computing the single transferable vote
• A concise STV analogy
• The Single Transferable Vote procedure in Ireland
• Information on BC-STV. British Columbia's Referendum on STV
• Simulating 2005 BC Election if STV was used
• Single Transferable Vote Animation (BC-STV) detailed flash animation explaining the process of Single Transferable Vote.
• A Technical Description of the Single Transferable Vote Article by Brian Wichmann.
• Tie-Breaking with the Single Transferable Vote Article by Jeffrey C. O'Neill
• Single Transferable Vote with Borda Elimination: A New Vote Counting System Article by Chris Geller.

Proponent Groups

• FairVote (USA, formerly the Center for Voting and Democracy)
• Proportional Representation Society of Australia
• Electoral Reform Society (United Kingdom) See also the Wikipedia article