stv.vote: Perth And Kinross, Scotland / Perth And Kinross

stv.vote // Perth And Kinross, Scotland Blairgowrie and Glens

The Perth And Kinross, Scotland May 2022 was held on May 5, 2022. 3 seats were filled using Single Transferable Vote from 9 candidates over 8 rounds.

In STV, candidates who reach the quota (1,166 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:

Caroline Shiers
Tom McEwan
Bob Brawn

Votes needed to win: 1,166 votes $\left\lfloor \frac{4,662}{3 + 1} \right\rfloor + 1$

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		Bob Brawn	Tom McEwan	Caroline Shiers	Harry Macfadyen	Pauline Hunter	Louise Ramsay	Gordon Ross Clark	Bernard Noonan	Jack Murphy
	Bob Brawn	0%	51.1%	43.6%	52.8%	73.4%	65.9%	74.8%	81.8%	88.2%
	Tom McEwan	48.9%	0%	49.3%	58.9%	72.9%	80.8%	70.3%	80%	88%
	Caroline Shiers	56.4%	50.7%	0%	52.4%	72.3%	65.7%	73.9%	81.6%	87.9%
	Harry Macfadyen	47.2%	41.1%	47.6%	0%	70.9%	78.2%	68.1%	77.8%	86.9%
	Pauline Hunter	26.6%	27.1%	27.7%	29.1%	0%	44%	45.2%	63.1%	76.5%
	Louise Ramsay	34.1%	19.2%	34.3%	21.8%	56%	0%	53.7%	66.3%	78.9%
	Gordon Ross Clark	25.2%	29.7%	26.1%	31.9%	54.8%	46.3%	0%	65.6%	79.1%
	Bernard Noonan	18.2%	20%	18.4%	22.2%	36.9%	33.8%	34.4%	0%	68.6%
	Jack Murphy	11.8%	12%	12.1%	13.1%	23.5%	21.1%	20.9%	31.4%	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		Bob Brawn	Tom McEwan	Caroline Shiers	Harry Macfadyen	Pauline Hunter	Louise Ramsay	Gordon Ross Clark	Bernard Noonan	Jack Murphy	Exhausted
	Bob Brawn	0%	2.6%	74.6%	2.1%	3.6%	1%	6%	1.6%	0.7%	7.8%
	Tom McEwan	1.5%	0%	2.3%	84.6%	1.8%	4.3%	0.7%	0.7%	0.7%	3.5%
	Caroline Shiers	86.8%	2.9%	0%	0.9%	1.2%	0.9%	2.8%	0.7%	0.5%	3.2%
	Harry Macfadyen	0.5%	90.5%	1.4%	0%	1.8%	2.7%	0.1%	0%	0.3%	2.7%
	Pauline Hunter	10.8%	8.6%	6.5%	6%	0%	9.9%	28%	6%	2.2%	22%
	Louise Ramsay	2.4%	33.7%	6.5%	11.2%	15.4%	0%	9.5%	5.9%	3.6%	11.8%
	Gordon Ross Clark	12.3%	4.3%	10.4%	2.5%	33.1%	14.1%	0%	8%	1.2%	14.1%
	Bernard Noonan	14.1%	6.3%	21.9%	3.1%	6.3%	12.5%	10.9%	0%	17.2%	7.8%
	Jack Murphy	18.9%	5.4%	21.6%	5.4%	5.4%	16.2%	8.1%	0%	0%	18.9%

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