stv.vote: South Lanarkshire, Scotland / South Lanarkshire

stv.vote // South Lanarkshire, Scotland East Kilbride South

The South Lanarkshire, 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 (1,319 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:

Archie Buchanan
Mathew Buchanan
Geri Gray

Votes needed to win: 1,319 votes $\left\lfloor \frac{5,274}{3 + 1} \right\rfloor + 1$

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		Archie Buchanan	Geri Gray	Mathew Buchanan	Paul McGarry	Patrick Nailon	John McKechnie	Jonathan Richardson	Iain Leckenby	Ross Gibson
	Archie Buchanan	0%	72.6%	59.3%	65.3%	76.4%	83.9%	88.5%	92.5%	91.9%
	Geri Gray	27.4%	0%	54%	62%	73.7%	79.6%	86.8%	90.8%	90.1%
	Mathew Buchanan	40.7%	46%	0%	62.6%	78.6%	65.4%	88.6%	84.9%	92.1%
	Paul McGarry	34.7%	38%	37.4%	0%	71.6%	58.3%	84.7%	78.3%	86.2%
	Patrick Nailon	23.6%	26.3%	21.4%	28.4%	0%	37.4%	66.2%	59.4%	65.4%
	John McKechnie	16.1%	20.4%	34.6%	41.7%	62.6%	0%	78.9%	75.7%	82.7%
	Jonathan Richardson	11.5%	13.2%	11.4%	15.3%	33.8%	21.1%	0%	43%	52%
	Iain Leckenby	7.5%	9.2%	15.1%	21.7%	40.6%	24.3%	57%	0%	59.4%
	Ross Gibson	8.1%	9.9%	7.9%	13.8%	34.6%	17.3%	48%	40.6%	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		Archie Buchanan	Geri Gray	Mathew Buchanan	Paul McGarry	Patrick Nailon	John McKechnie	Jonathan Richardson	Iain Leckenby	Ross Gibson	Exhausted
	Archie Buchanan	0%	76.7%	9.1%	2.7%	0.6%	4.2%	0.4%	1%	0.5%	4.9%
	Geri Gray	81%	0%	4.3%	2.9%	0%	4.2%	0.3%	1.1%	0.6%	5.5%
	Mathew Buchanan	16.2%	5.1%	0%	24.8%	13.7%	6.3%	3%	1.6%	3%	26.4%
	Paul McGarry	10.2%	8.2%	27.4%	0%	16.3%	10.9%	2.9%	1.8%	1.5%	20.6%
	Patrick Nailon	2.8%	0.7%	34.5%	29%	0%	1.3%	6.6%	0.9%	1.1%	23.1%
	John McKechnie	27.3%	22.1%	14.9%	13%	0.6%	0%	4.5%	2.6%	1.9%	13%
	Jonathan Richardson	11.8%	4.4%	13.2%	10.3%	22.1%	5.9%	0%	4.4%	5.9%	22.1%
	Iain Leckenby	28.1%	14%	5.3%	3.5%	3.5%	10.5%	12.3%	0%	5.3%	17.5%
	Ross Gibson	12.9%	0%	25.8%	29%	3.2%	6.5%	6.5%	0%	0%	16.1%

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