With all eleven votes now in, I, Mark Jonathan Valladares, Returning Officer to Liberal Youth, do hereby declare that the result of the election to co-opt four General Executive Members is as follows;
- Cara Drury - 3 votes
- Usaama Kaweesa - 2 votes
- Callum Morton - 2 votes
- Ed Sanderson - 2 votes
- Caroline Boyd - 1 vote
- Callum Leslie - 1 vote
With eleven votes cast, and four vacancies, the quota required to gain election is 2.2, and Cara Drury is declared elected on the first count.
For the second count, Cara's votes are transferred at a value of 0.26, leading to the following outcome;
- Callum Leslie + 0.52 votes
- Callum Morton + 0.26 votes
- rounding error + 0.02 votes
The new totals after the second count are;
- Cara Drury - elected at count 1
- Callum Morton - 2.26 votes
- Usaama Kaweesa - 2 votes
- Ed Sanderson - 2 votes
- Callum Leslie - 1.52 votes
- Caroline Boyd - 1 vote
- rounding error - 0.02 votes
I therefore declare Callum Morton elected on the second count.
For the third count, Callum's surplus is transferred at a value of 0.02, leading to the following outcome;
- Caroline Boyd + 0.02 votes
- Callum Leslie + 0.02 votes
- rounding error +0.02 votes
The new totals after the third count are;
- Cara Drury - elected at count 1
- Callum Morton - elected at count 2
- Usaama Kaweesa - 2 votes
- Ed Sanderson - 2 votes
- Callum Leslie - 1.54 votes
- Caroline Boyd - 1.02 votes
- rounding error - 0.04 votes
For the fourth count, there being no further surpluses to transfer, the remaining candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, that being Caroline Boyd, whose votes are transferred at face value, leading to the following outcome;
- Ed Sanderson + 1.02 votes
The new totals after the fourth count are;
- Cara Drury - elected at count 1
- Callum Morton - elected at count 2
- Ed Sanderson - 3.02 votes
- Usaama Kaweesa - 2 votes
- Callum Leslie - 1.54 votes
- Caroline Boyd - eliminated at count 3
I therefore declare Ed Sanderson elected on the fourth count.
For the fifth count, Ed's surplus is transferred at a value of 0.27, leading to the following outcome;
- Usaama Kaweesa + 0.27 votes
- Callum Leslie + 0.27 votes
- non-transferable + 0.27 votes
- rounding error + 0.01 votes
The new totals after the fifth count are;
- Cara Drury - elected at count 1
- Callum Morton - elected at count 2
- Ed Sanderson - elected at count 4
- Usaama Kaweesa - 2.27 votes
- Callum Leslie - 1.81 votes
- non-transferable - 0.27 votes
- rounding error - 0.05 votes
I therefore declare Usaama Kaweesa elected on the fifth count, and Callum Leslie to be the runner-up.
I should thank the candidates for putting themselves up for election, and the Federal Executive of Liberal Youth for casting their votes promptly and efficiently.
4 comments:
Not that it affects the result, but your STV calculations are inaccurate.
First, Callum Morton's surplus was insufficient at any stage to influence the result, so it should have been suspended rather than being transferred.
Second, you determined the value of Ed Sanderson's surplus too early; non-transferable votes do not get a fraction of the surplus. Since the surplus should have been 0.80, rather than 0.82 (as the Morton surplus should not have been transferred), the fifth count should instead read:
Usaama Kaweesa + 0.40 votes
Callum Leslie + 0.40 votes
and the totals should then be:
Usaama Kaweesa 2.40 votes
Callum Leslie 1.92 votes
As I said, it doesn't affect the results.
I was going to say that...
Richard/Theo,
I do agree with you, but for presentational reasons, I chose to do it this way, having confirmed that it didn't impact on the result.
Either of you fancy becoming my deputy?...
I think we've both been LDYS RO in the past, so I doubt either of us are much inclined to repeat it.
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