stv.vote: Angus, Scotland / Angus - Montrose and District / 2022

stv.vote // Angus, Scotland Montrose and District

The Angus, Scotland May 2022 was held on May 5, 2022. 4 seats were filled using Single Transferable Vote from 9 candidates over 7 rounds.

In STV, candidates who reach the quota (1,010 votes) are elected. Surplus votes above the quota are transferred to voters' next preferences. When no candidate reaches the quota, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and their votes are transferred.

Elected candidates:

Iain Gall
Kenny Braes
Bill Duff
Tommy Stewart

Votes needed to win: 1,010 votes $\left\lfloor \frac{5,049}{4 + 1} \right\rfloor + 1$

STV Rounds

This Sankey diagram shows the votes of each remaining candidate at each round, as well as the breakdown of votes transferred when each candidate was elected (surplus transfers) or eliminated.

Note that the tabulation (but not the winner) may differ from the official count. You can read more about why this is.

Candidate Clustering

This visualization shows candidates positioned based on second-choice transfers. Candidates whose voters frequently rank each other appear closer together, forming natural "clusters" or voting blocs.

Distance is based on the First Alternate table below — if voters who rank candidate A first often rank candidate B second (and vice versa), they'll appear close together. In STV, proportional representation means winners should be distributed across different clusters, representing diverse voter preferences.

Circle size indicates first-round vote share. Green circles are elected candidates. Hover over candidates to see their top second-choice transfers.

Pairwise Preferences

For every pair of candidates, this table shows the fraction of voters who preferred one to the other. A preference means that either a voter ranks a candidate ahead of the other, or ranks one candidate but does not list the other. Ballots which rank neither candidate are not counted towards the percent counts.

Note: In multi-seat STV elections, pairwise preferences show overall voter sentiment but don't directly determine outcomes, since votes transfer through multiple elimination and surplus rounds.

	Less-preferred Candidate
Preferred Candidate		Tommy Stewart	Iain Gall	Kenny Braes	Bill Duff	Mark Salmond	John Ruddy	Jamie Adams	Angela Jocelyn Noble	James Boag
	Tommy Stewart	0%	55.6%	44.6%	44.9%	48.3%	66.9%	63.9%	69.8%	80.3%
	Iain Gall	44.4%	0%	41.3%	41.6%	48.6%	61.1%	57.5%	64.6%	66.3%
	Kenny Braes	55.4%	58.7%	0%	55.4%	57.7%	70.7%	78.4%	71.1%	74.2%
	Bill Duff	55.1%	58.4%	44.6%	0%	57.1%	70.5%	77.8%	70.6%	73.8%
	Mark Salmond	51.7%	51.4%	42.3%	42.9%	0%	65%	62.3%	68%	77.5%
	John Ruddy	33.1%	38.9%	29.3%	29.5%	35%	0%	47.6%	51.6%	55.3%
	Jamie Adams	36.1%	42.5%	21.6%	22.2%	37.7%	52.4%	0%	54.1%	58.3%
	Angela Jocelyn Noble	30.2%	35.4%	28.9%	29.4%	32%	48.4%	45.9%	0%	53.8%
	James Boag	19.7%	33.7%	25.8%	26.2%	22.5%	44.7%	41.7%	46.2%	0%

First Alternate

For every pair of candidates, this table shows the fraction of voters who ranked one candidate first ranked the other candidate second.

	Second Choice
First Choice		Tommy Stewart	Iain Gall	Kenny Braes	Bill Duff	Mark Salmond	John Ruddy	Jamie Adams	Angela Jocelyn Noble	James Boag	Exhausted
	Tommy Stewart	0%	15.2%	7.2%	7.2%	35.5%	6.6%	2.5%	3.7%	6.4%	15.7%
	Iain Gall	14.8%	0%	1.8%	1%	29.1%	9.6%	2.1%	13%	4.1%	24.6%
	Kenny Braes	1.7%	0.9%	0%	87.1%	1.7%	0.6%	3.1%	1%	0.6%	3.1%
	Bill Duff	2.8%	1.3%	86.5%	0%	1.7%	1.6%	2.5%	0.7%	0.2%	2.8%
	Mark Salmond	51.3%	11.8%	5.4%	6.4%	0%	3.6%	4.8%	4.2%	5.2%	7.2%
	John Ruddy	13.3%	8.5%	7.3%	6.7%	13%	0%	9.1%	21.8%	3.6%	16.7%
	Jamie Adams	10%	3.3%	33.3%	12.2%	7.2%	9.4%	0%	11.1%	4.4%	8.9%
	Angela Jocelyn Noble	10.1%	10.1%	3.6%	2.2%	15.1%	25.2%	8.6%	0%	5%	20.1%
	James Boag	19.7%	9.8%	13.1%	1.6%	26.2%	3.3%	11.5%	8.2%	0%	6.6%

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