stv.vote: North Lanarkshire, Scotland / North Lanarkshire

stv.vote // North Lanarkshire, Scotland Cumbernauld South

The North Lanarkshire, Scotland May 2022 was held on May 5, 2022. 4 seats were filled using Single Transferable Vote from 9 candidates over 6 rounds.

In STV, candidates who reach the quota (1,143 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:

James McPhilemy
Ann Ballinger
William Goldie
Peter McDade

Votes needed to win: 1,143 votes $\left\lfloor \frac{5,713}{4 + 1} \right\rfloor + 1$

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		Ann Ballinger	James McPhilemy	William Goldie	Peter McDade	Cathie Johnston	Rebecca Macphee	Willie Homer	Norma Mclachlan Diffin	Simona Panaitescu
	Ann Ballinger	0%	54.8%	54.2%	56%	50.1%	78.2%	84.4%	88.6%	92.9%
	James McPhilemy	45.2%	0%	44.6%	59.8%	45.3%	82.4%	82.1%	89.9%	94.2%
	William Goldie	45.8%	55.4%	0%	56.7%	61.8%	78.9%	85.5%	88.7%	93.1%
	Peter McDade	44%	40.2%	43.3%	0%	43.8%	81.3%	81.1%	89.5%	93.7%
	Cathie Johnston	49.9%	54.7%	38.2%	56.2%	0%	78.6%	84%	88.3%	92.9%
	Rebecca Macphee	21.8%	17.6%	21.1%	18.7%	21.4%	0%	48.3%	63%	72.3%
	Willie Homer	15.6%	17.9%	14.5%	18.9%	16%	51.7%	0%	64.3%	78.7%
	Norma Mclachlan Diffin	11.4%	10.1%	11.3%	10.5%	11.7%	37%	35.7%	0%	66.7%
	Simona Panaitescu	7.1%	5.8%	6.9%	6.3%	7.1%	27.7%	21.3%	33.3%	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		Ann Ballinger	James McPhilemy	William Goldie	Peter McDade	Cathie Johnston	Rebecca Macphee	Willie Homer	Norma Mclachlan Diffin	Simona Panaitescu	Exhausted
	Ann Ballinger	0%	1.8%	79.5%	1.4%	13.6%	0%	0.7%	1%	0.2%	1.7%
	James McPhilemy	1.5%	0%	1.7%	87%	1.9%	1.9%	0.7%	0.4%	0.4%	4.5%
	William Goldie	37%	3.2%	0%	1.4%	52.7%	0.4%	2.7%	0.2%	0%	2.4%
	Peter McDade	2.1%	86.1%	0.9%	0%	1.1%	2.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.3%	5.9%
	Cathie Johnston	57.5%	2.4%	34.8%	1.2%	0%	0.5%	1%	0.2%	0.1%	2.2%
	Rebecca Macphee	0.7%	22.5%	1.8%	28.3%	1.3%	0%	2.6%	8.2%	3.1%	31.6%
	Willie Homer	16.2%	7.1%	16.9%	14.9%	14.3%	5.2%	0%	5.2%	5.2%	14.9%
	Norma Mclachlan Diffin	5.2%	24.7%	1.3%	7.8%	5.2%	20.8%	9.1%	0%	11.7%	14.3%
	Simona Panaitescu	0%	12.2%	2.4%	4.9%	4.9%	7.3%	19.5%	34.1%	0%	14.6%

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