Single Transferable Vote elections produce a lot of data about voter preferences. Typically, this information is made available by election boards in specialized file formats and requires processing to interpret. The purpose of stv.vote is to increase transparency into these elections by creating detailed and intuitive reports about them.

All reports are generated from the raw ballot data, rather than using the official tabulation. As a result, the reports also serve as an independent tabulation of the results that can be reproduced using published source code.

stv.vote was created by Felix Sargent. It is non-partisan and has received no outside funding.

If you enjoy alternate voting systems, you may also enjoy approval.vote, which is a similar project for approval voting elections.

Learning More

To learn more about social choice theory and voting methods, check out Nicky Case's "Build a Better Ballot", an interactive guide to voting methods, and the Center for Election Science, which promotes evidence-based voting methods.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! The project is open source and available on GitHub. Please feel free to open issues, submit pull requests, or reach out with questions.

License

This website and the data pipeline behind it (including the tabulator) are open source and liberally licensed. Website content and generated reports may be freely distributed with attribution under the CC-BY license.

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The font is Source Sans Pro.