Talk:No further preferences

The following is a note about a correction I've made on this page.

It's content may be of some use somwhere on the city.

I've corrected this page because the previous version was not technically correct.

The previous version of the page stated that when NFP is reached in an STV count the vote goes non-transferable, however this is not necessarirly the case. It is actually the ballot paper that goes non-transferable.

For example when a surplus is transfered, the surplus to be transfered is divided by the number of transferable papers to get a transfer value, and so it is possible that the entire surplus is transfered (i.e. no votes go non-transferable at this stage.

See the following election as an example:

Quota: 10.00

Surplus to be transfered: 5.00

Number of transferable papers: 10 Number of non-transferable papers: 5

Each of the transferable papers have a transfer value of 0.50, and the total surplus transfered is 5.00, so no votes go non-transferable at this stage.

Benny Spooner 7th April 2006, 12:11 (UTC)