[EM] [Election-Methods] [english 94%] PR favoring racialminorities

[Raph Frank]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Juho <juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Are there any statistics from real STV-PR elections on how many votes (sum
> of fragments) run out of candidates during the counting process?

The easiest way to see that is to look at how many votes are
remaing to the last count.

Taking Limerick East as an example:
http://electionsireland.org/counts.cfm?election=2007&cons=159&ref=

After the last count, the totals were:

Willie O'Dea: 8,230 	
Peter Power: 8,230 	
Michael Noonan: 8,230 	
Jan O'Sullivan: 9,051 	
Kieran O'Donnell: 6,966 	
Tim O'Malley: 5,776
Total: 46,483

Total valid poll: 49,375

Percentage votes remaining at least count: 94.1%

This shows that most vote strength remained until the end.

However, it does show the issue with not readjusting the quota.
O'Donnell was elected with only 6966 votes, while everyone
else needed a full quota.

Ofc, perhaps, O'Sullivan's transfers may have all ended up with
him as there was a FG/Lab voting pact.