In article , john@acornusers.org (John M 
Ward) wrote:

> In article
> ,
>    JohnLoony  wrote:
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> > http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/maryfield_byelection/results09.pdf
> 
> Crumbs!  All that for just one seat.  It can't get much more complicated
> and obscure than that!  At least the obvious outcome (the highest vote
> wins) did come out the far end...

It's simple enough. They just excluded candidates one by one to ensure 
that the winner had an overall majority of the votes.

Because of the Scottish Parliament's slightly ignorant debates on STV they 
adopted a method which requires utterly pointless stages of counts. The 
last stage in this election is pointless because the SNP candidate has 
attained more votes at stage 5 than the remaining candidates have together 
so there is no point in conducting stage 6 as it cannot change the outcome 
of the election.

-- 
Cllr. Colin Rosenstiel
Cambridge                    http://www.rosenstiel.co.uk/
Cambridge Liberal Democrats: http://www.cambridgelibdems.org.uk/