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The Argyll And Bute, Scotland May 2022 was held on May 5, 2022. 3 seats were filled using Single Transferable Vote from 9 candidates over 7 rounds.

In STV, candidates who reach the quota (800 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:

Douglas Trevor Philand
Jan Brown
Garret Corner

Votes needed to win: 800 votes $\left\lfloor \frac{3,197}{3 + 1} \right\rfloor + 1$

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		Douglas Trevor Philand	Jan Brown	Garret Corner	Andy Cameron	Lesley Burt	Donnie Macmillan	David Barton	Ross Alistair Weir	Abisola Adepetun
	Douglas Trevor Philand	0%	58.6%	80.2%	81%	79.8%	80.1%	81.6%	84.6%	90.9%
	Jan Brown	41.4%	0%	68.8%	64.9%	73.8%	62.8%	71.5%	82.5%	81.6%
	Garret Corner	19.8%	31.3%	0%	38.3%	46.7%	37.8%	45.1%	50.3%	57.9%
	Andy Cameron	19%	35.1%	61.7%	0%	59.1%	48.3%	58.8%	62%	75.8%
	Lesley Burt	20.2%	26.2%	53.3%	40.9%	0%	38.7%	47.7%	52.6%	62.9%
	Donnie Macmillan	19.9%	37.2%	62.2%	51.7%	61.3%	0%	59.9%	65.7%	73.4%
	David Barton	18.4%	28.5%	54.9%	41.2%	52.3%	40.1%	0%	55.3%	65.2%
	Ross Alistair Weir	15.4%	17.5%	49.7%	38%	47.4%	34.3%	44.7%	0%	62%
	Abisola Adepetun	9.1%	18.4%	42.1%	24.2%	37.1%	26.6%	34.8%	38%	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		Douglas Trevor Philand	Jan Brown	Garret Corner	Andy Cameron	Lesley Burt	Donnie Macmillan	David Barton	Ross Alistair Weir	Abisola Adepetun	Exhausted
	Douglas Trevor Philand	0%	17.8%	8.8%	15.8%	5.1%	24.6%	6.7%	5.4%	3.4%	12.5%
	Jan Brown	27.7%	0%	0.8%	6.5%	12.8%	5.7%	6.8%	18.1%	2.3%	19.1%
	Garret Corner	27.5%	1.6%	0%	9.7%	10.2%	14.6%	14.8%	1.1%	1.9%	18.6%
	Andy Cameron	31.4%	9.3%	10%	0%	5%	17.1%	5.7%	4.3%	4.3%	12.9%
	Lesley Burt	17.8%	15.9%	5.1%	7%	0%	4.5%	29.3%	2.5%	0.6%	17.2%
	Donnie Macmillan	49.7%	8.1%	8.1%	6%	3.4%	0%	0.7%	2%	0.7%	21.5%
	David Barton	15.9%	14%	8.4%	5.6%	29%	6.5%	0%	0%	3.7%	16.8%
	Ross Alistair Weir	29.5%	35.9%	3.8%	11.5%	3.8%	1.3%	6.4%	0%	3.8%	3.8%
	Abisola Adepetun	25.9%	14.8%	1.9%	24.1%	7.4%	1.9%	11.1%	9.3%	0%	3.7%

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