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In May 2005 the Canadian province of British Columbia had a referendum on abolishing single-member district plurality in favour of multi-member districts with the Single Transferable Vote system after the Citizens ' Assembly on Electoral Reform made a recommendation for the reform.
Single Transferable Vote was first used in Denmark in 1857, making STV the oldest PR system, but the system used there never really spread.
The President is directly elected by secret ballot using the Alternative Vote, the single-winner analogue of the Single Transferable Vote.
All three devolved institutions are elected by proportional representation: the Additional Member System is used in Scotland and Wales, and Single Transferable Vote is used in Northern Ireland.
The Assembly is a unicameral body consisting of 108 members elected under the Single Transferable Vote form of proportional representation.
The 1981 general elections saw the Nationalist Party ( NP ) gaining an absolute majority of votes, yet the Labour winning the majority of Parliamentary seats under the Single Transferable Vote and Mintoff remained Prime Minister, leading to a political crisis.
When the Citizen's Assembly process produced its recommendation that a referendum be held on the Single Transferable Vote system Carr condemned it.
However in the council elections, taking place under the new Single Transferable Vote voting system, they gained three Councillors on the City of Edinburgh Council and five Councillors on Glasgow City Council.
The Droop quota is the quota most commonly used in elections held under the Single Transferable Vote ( STV ) system.
* The system must be a form of proportional representation, under either the party list or Single Transferable Vote system.
However, there were also two two-seat constituencies: University of Dublin, ( Trinity College ) elected two MPs under the Single Transferable Vote and Cork City elected two MPs under the Bloc voting system.
A tally ( also see tally sticks ) is an unofficial private observation of an election count carried out under Proportional Representation using the Single Transferable Vote.
The Council uses the Single Transferable Vote method, a form of preferential voting for use with proportional representation.
The 22-member South Australian Legislative Council is elected under the preferential Single Transferable Vote ( STV ) system through a means of Group voting tickets.
If the University's rules on Single Transferable Voting are included, then it is indeed longer than that of Canada.
Six members were elected by Single Transferable Vote from each of Northern Ireland's eighteen Westminster Parliamentary constituencies, giving a total of 108 MLAs, or Members of the Legislative Assembly.
Bolger had originally proposed a return to a bicameral system, with a Senate elected by Single Transferable Vote, but this proposal was dropped in the face of support for electoral reform.
Six members were elected by Single Transferable Vote from each of Northern Ireland's eighteen Westminster Parliamentary constituencies, giving a total of 108 MLAs, or Members of the Legislative Assembly.
) The system can work with a first past the post electoral system but is incompatible with ( partisan ) proportional representation systems other than Single Transferable Vote.
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