stv.vote: Edinburgh, Scotland / Edinburgh

stv.vote // Edinburgh, Scotland Almond

The Edinburgh, 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 (2,782 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:

Kevin Lang
Norrie Work
Louise Young
Lewis James Younie

Votes needed to win: 2,782 votes $\left\lfloor \frac{13,909}{4 + 1} \right\rfloor + 1$

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		Kevin Lang	Louise Young	Norrie Work	Lewis James Younie	James Hill	Andrew Brough	Fred Hessler	Stewart Geddes	Annemarie Baillie
	Kevin Lang	0%	69.2%	71.9%	90.1%	88.1%	78.4%	83.7%	94.9%	95%
	Louise Young	30.8%	0%	69.9%	92.5%	85.9%	76.9%	82.2%	94.5%	94.8%
	Norrie Work	28.1%	30.1%	0%	34.1%	61.2%	65.7%	63.1%	85.1%	88.7%
	Lewis James Younie	9.9%	7.5%	65.9%	0%	81.9%	72.6%	78.4%	93.1%	93.6%
	James Hill	11.9%	14.1%	38.8%	18.1%	0%	42.8%	45.7%	77.5%	76.5%
	Andrew Brough	21.6%	23.1%	34.3%	27.4%	57.2%	0%	55.9%	83.6%	88.9%
	Fred Hessler	16.3%	17.8%	36.9%	21.6%	54.3%	44.1%	0%	82.7%	87.8%
	Stewart Geddes	5.1%	5.5%	14.9%	6.9%	22.5%	16.4%	17.3%	0%	50.5%
	Annemarie Baillie	5%	5.2%	11.3%	6.4%	23.5%	11.1%	12.2%	49.5%	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		Kevin Lang	Louise Young	Norrie Work	Lewis James Younie	James Hill	Andrew Brough	Fred Hessler	Stewart Geddes	Annemarie Baillie	Exhausted
	Kevin Lang	0%	85%	3.2%	3.5%	3.8%	1.5%	1.5%	0.1%	0.1%	1.1%
	Louise Young	81.4%	0%	1.9%	12.4%	1.3%	0.9%	0.9%	0.1%	0%	1%
	Norrie Work	11.9%	8.7%	0%	0.9%	1.3%	47.3%	11.3%	1.5%	0.9%	16.1%
	Lewis James Younie	28%	58%	4%	0%	5%	1.5%	2.5%	0%	0%	1%
	James Hill	48.8%	11%	1.3%	3%	0%	1.2%	7%	5.6%	1.9%	20.3%
	Andrew Brough	18.6%	10.2%	43.5%	1.2%	0.8%	0%	15.1%	1.4%	1.9%	7.3%
	Fred Hessler	24.4%	9.4%	16.3%	2.6%	4.7%	17.6%	0%	2.9%	3.6%	18.5%
	Stewart Geddes	17.6%	5.4%	10.1%	0.7%	23.6%	7.4%	6.1%	0%	15.5%	13.5%
	Annemarie Baillie	9.8%	3.3%	6.6%	0%	1.6%	27.9%	14.8%	14.8%	0%	21.3%

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