The result

Rev. 03 Feb 26

The details of how the result is obtained, with the successive elimination of candidates and the transfer of their votes until a majority winner emerges, are doubtless of great interest to politicians and other professional observers. But the result itself needs to be reported to the general public in a much simpler and more readily comprehensible form.

The basis is just a list of candidates showing
– name
– party or “Independent”
– outcome: “Elected”, or lost (“Defeated” or blank?), or “Eliminated”
– first vote: the number of first choice votes received by that candidate
– final vote: the number of votes credited to that candidate either when the result is known or at the time of their prior elimination.

Outcome is one of
– elected
– defeated, i.e. still in the contest at the end
– eliminated, i.e. removed from the contest before the end

Preferred sequence is
a) the candidate elected
b) losing candidates still in the contest at the end, in (reverse) sequence of their final vote
c) candidates eliminated before the end, in (reverse) sequence of their time of elimination.

Here is an example. In this, there being no majority winner, E’s 11,000 votes are transferred 4,000 to C and 7,000 to A. Then, there still being no majority winner, and E having been eliminated, D’s 15,000 votes are all transferred to A.