stv.vote: Moray, Scotland / Moray - Elgin City South / 2022

stv.vote // Moray, Scotland Elgin City South

The Moray, Scotland May 2022 was held on May 5, 2022. 3 seats were filled using Single Transferable Vote from 6 candidates in a single round.

In STV, candidates who reach the quota (1,016 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:

Graham Leadbitter
John Divers
Peter Bloomfield

Votes needed to win: 1,016 votes $\left\lfloor \frac{4,062}{3 + 1} \right\rfloor + 1$

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		Graham Leadbitter	John Divers	Peter Bloomfield	Bernard Matthew Salmon	Michaela French	Paul Briggs
	Graham Leadbitter	0%	45.8%	56.1%	66.7%	67.1%	67.6%
	John Divers	54.2%	0%	62.7%	79.5%	76.7%	78.1%
	Peter Bloomfield	43.9%	37.3%	0%	58.3%	60.9%	62.4%
	Bernard Matthew Salmon	33.3%	20.5%	41.7%	0%	53.7%	55%
	Michaela French	32.9%	23.3%	39.1%	46.3%	0%	49.7%
	Paul Briggs	32.4%	21.9%	37.6%	45%	50.3%	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		Graham Leadbitter	John Divers	Peter Bloomfield	Bernard Matthew Salmon	Michaela French	Paul Briggs	Exhausted
	Graham Leadbitter	0%	43.4%	3.5%	9.8%	8%	5.5%	29.8%
	John Divers	27.3%	0%	16.8%	17.9%	6.8%	9.7%	21.5%
	Peter Bloomfield	2.2%	31.7%	0%	12.8%	8.3%	18.3%	26.6%
	Bernard Matthew Salmon	16.1%	31.5%	16.9%	0%	17.7%	5.6%	12.1%
	Michaela French	16.8%	14.9%	11.2%	4.3%	0%	45.3%	7.5%
	Paul Briggs	6.9%	13.9%	13.9%	7.9%	51.5%	0%	5.9%

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