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.

* a system of proportional representation, also known as Single Transferable Vote ( STV )

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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.

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The Leader and Deputy Leader were elected using a Single Transferable Vote system.

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.

These elections used both Single Transferable Vote and First Past the Post systems in 2007.

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.

* The 1981 election, when, due to a quirk in that country's Single Transferrable Vote system, the party winning more than half the votes won fewer than half the seats

SAP E-SOA, client certificate-based authentication is the only authentication method ( besides username / password ) and the only Single Sign-On method to be supported across all SAP technologies.

* Caving and speleology, where underground pitches are accessed using this method ( Single Rope Technique ).

The voting method for the election of MPs was the Single transferable vote with the bill prescribing 16 members being elected from multimember borough constituencies, 104 from multimember county constituencies and 8 being elected from graduates of Irish Universities, with all members having equal standing in the eyes of the House.

* Single Rope Technique, a method used in caving and potholing to descend and ascend vertical drops

* Single Particle Tracking, a method for measuring particle diffusion

The Hare quota ( also known as the simple quota ) is a formula used under some forms of the Single Transferable Vote ( STV ) system and the largest remainder method of party-list proportional representation.

Most councils were elected using the First Past the Post method, but ten, of which Wellington City was the largest, were elected using the Single Transferable Vote method.

* Single Crystal Diffraction-a scientific method to determine the three dimensional structure of molecules

Stellaris FISH, formerly known as Single Molecule RNA FISH, is a method of detecting and quantifying mRNA and other long RNA molecules in a thin layer of tissue sample.

From 1926 to 1959 Calgary and Edmonton, elected members with Single Transferable Vote in super districts while rest of the province used single member riding's using an Alternate voting method with a 50 % margin.

Single pass albumin dialysis ( SPAD ) is a simple method of albumin dialysis using standard renal replacement therapy machines without an additional perfusion pump system: The patient ’ s blood flows through a circuit with a high-flux hollow fiber hemodiafilter, identical to that used in the MARS system.

Single use molds are prepared using the lost wax method.

Single crystal LGS can be grown via the Czochralski method, in which crystallization is initiated on a rotating seed crystal lowered into the melt followed by pulling from the melt.

In the Netherlands, the company TNO has designed Bioaerosol Single Particle Recognition eQuipment ( BiosparQ ).

Also in case of Single Instructions Multiple Data — a case when a lot of data from the same type has to be processed, modern processors can disable parts of the pipeline so that when a single instruction is executed many times, the CPU skips the fetch and decode phases and thus greatly increases performance on certain occasions, especially in highly monotonous program engines such as video creation software and photo processing.

Because of the " Single Market " of the EC, any food – even if irradiated – must be allowed to be marketed in any other Member State even if a general ban of food irradiation prevails, under the condition that the food has been irradiated legally in the state of origin.

The six gun has many modern incarnations, such as the Ruger Vaquero and Beretta Stampede, as well as the currently produced Colt Single Action Army.

It also has a New Shotgun weapon found in Single player as well as the Soldier and Engineer for Multiplayer games.

Many distilleries are releasing " Single Cask " editions, which are the product of a single cask that has not been vatted with whisky from any other casks.

Single context recording was developed in the 1970s by the museum of London ( as well as earlier in Winchester and York ) and has become the de facto recording system in many parts of the world and is especially suited to the complexities of deep urban archaeology and the process of Stratification.

The current test for this is Individual Vehicle Approval ( IVA ), which has replaced Single Vehicle Approval ( SVA ).

The 2003 reform has introduced the Single Payment Scheme ( SPS ) or as it is known as well the Single Farm Payment ( SFP ).

* 422. 2 Single reed instruments – The pipe has a single ' reed ' consisting of a percussion lamella.

Single Cell Orchestra is the performing name of Miguel Fierro ( born Miguel Angelo Fierro ), a San Francisco-born musician who has worked for many years in electronic music and techno.

Throughout her career, Locklear has appeared in eight television productions made by Aaron Spelling, these being Dynasty, T. J. Hooker, Matt Houston, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Hotel, Melrose Place, and the made-for-TV movie Rich Men, Single Women.

Arnold has also made guest appearances on several television shows such as Living Single ( 1996 ), Beverly Hills, 90210 ( 1997, 1999 ).

Single parenting has become an accepted norm in the United States and is an accepted trend found in multiple other countries.

According to Single Parent Magazine, the number of single fathers has increased by 60 % in the last ten years, and is one of the fastest growing family situations in the United States.

As with TS clearances, Sensitive Compartmented Information ( SCI ) clearances are assigned only after one has been through the rigors of a Single Scope Background Investigation and a special adjudication process for evaluating the investigation.

; Single Based Propellant: A single based propellant has nitrocellulose as its chief explosives ingredient.

The game itself has three modes, Single Puyo Puyo, Double Puyo Puyo, and Endless Puyo Puyo.

ASEAN has attempted to improve customs coordination through the implementation of the ASEAN Single Window project.

The Arran Distillery is a patron of the World Burns Federation and as such has created a Robert Burns Single Malt and Robert Burns Blended Whisky in honour of Scotland's National Poet.

* The Single Cube Room: This room is a complete cube, wide and high ; has pine panelling gilded and white, and is carved from dado to cornice.

During his career Sebastian has received 14 ARIA Award nominations, including Single of the Year, Best Male Artist and Best Pop Release, and won Highest Selling Single ARIA Awards for " Angels Brought Me Here " and " Who's That Girl ".