[EM] Question about a news report and nomenclature

[Diana Galletly]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Paul Kislanko wrote:

> In any case, they called it "Instant Run-off" but when they described
> the method it sounded to me to be what this list would call Single
> Transferable Vote - (the ballots whose 1st place candidate receives the
> fewest first place votes in the first counting are treated as if the second
> place candidate was ranked first in the second round, and so on).
>
> If that is what IRV is, what is the difference between IRV and STV?

How many candidates got elected?  If only one, it was IRV; if more than
one STV.  Or you can see it as IRV being the single-winner version of
STV, if you like.

Diana.