stv.vote: Highland, Scotland / Highland

stv.vote // Highland, Scotland Eilean a Cheo

The Highland, 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 (904 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:

John Finlayson
Drew Millar
Calum Munro
Ruraidh Stewart

Votes needed to win: 904 votes $\left\lfloor \frac{4,515}{4 + 1} \right\rfloor + 1$

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		John Finlayson	Drew Millar	Calum Munro	Ruraidh Stewart	Fay Thomson	Donald Macdonald	Peter A Donnghaile	Hector Macleod	Jack Clark
	John Finlayson	0%	64.3%	65.7%	80.9%	76.8%	78.2%	85.6%	84.5%	84%
	Drew Millar	35.7%	0%	42.8%	66.5%	54.4%	56.6%	74.2%	79.4%	70%
	Calum Munro	34.3%	57.2%	0%	75.4%	68.2%	68.4%	81.5%	80.4%	76.9%
	Ruraidh Stewart	19.1%	33.5%	24.6%	0%	33.3%	34.6%	49.2%	52.5%	46.9%
	Fay Thomson	23.2%	45.6%	31.8%	66.7%	0%	52.5%	71.7%	71.5%	69.2%
	Donald Macdonald	21.8%	43.4%	31.6%	65.4%	47.5%	0%	70.3%	70.6%	66%
	Peter A Donnghaile	14.4%	25.8%	18.5%	50.8%	28.3%	29.7%	0%	52.2%	45.1%
	Hector Macleod	15.5%	20.6%	19.6%	47.5%	28.5%	29.4%	47.8%	0%	44.2%
	Jack Clark	16%	30%	23.1%	53.1%	30.8%	34%	54.9%	55.8%	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		John Finlayson	Drew Millar	Calum Munro	Ruraidh Stewart	Fay Thomson	Donald Macdonald	Peter A Donnghaile	Hector Macleod	Jack Clark	Exhausted
	John Finlayson	0%	12.9%	34.6%	6.1%	12.9%	13.4%	3.5%	2.2%	5.2%	9.2%
	Drew Millar	25.5%	0%	13.6%	0.9%	5.6%	4%	6.3%	17.6%	5.7%	20.8%
	Calum Munro	34.6%	15.1%	0%	3.3%	12.7%	16.6%	2.1%	5.1%	2.6%	7.9%
	Ruraidh Stewart	23.9%	1%	10.5%	0%	9.9%	8.2%	8.9%	1.2%	14%	22.3%
	Fay Thomson	28.7%	8.1%	29.1%	5.8%	0%	10.5%	3.1%	2.3%	2.3%	10.1%
	Donald Macdonald	30%	8.3%	29.2%	4.6%	12.9%	0%	1.7%	1.7%	2.1%	9.6%
	Peter A Donnghaile	17.2%	12.7%	8.3%	5.7%	7.6%	3.8%	0%	0.6%	25.5%	18.5%
	Hector Macleod	16.9%	18.1%	28.3%	1.8%	12%	6.6%	4.2%	0%	2.4%	9.6%
	Jack Clark	24.8%	10.2%	6.4%	19.1%	4.5%	5.1%	16.6%	0.6%	0%	12.7%

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