Toward Computing the Margin of Victory in Single Transferable Vote Elections

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 636-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Blom ◽  
Peter J. Stuckey ◽  
Vanessa J. Teague
Keyword(s):  
Single Transferable Vote ◽  
Margin Of Victory

The Transferable Vote: A Hundred Years of Anglican Experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-355
Author(s):  
Colin Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Good Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Blind Person ◽  
Single Transferable Vote ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Church

I am grateful to the Society for the opportunity to mark the centenary of the Enabling Act and the beginning of the Church Assembly with some reflection on an often ignored but highly valuable feature of that inauguration: the Single Transferable Vote or STV. I tried on one respected registrar recently an illustration of what the task must be like for those who do not welcome it. Was it, I suggested, like a blind person doing a jigsaw where the pieces were all shaped differently from each other – in other words, where the blind person could ensure that it was put together accurately, but on the other hand never saw the picture? The response was that that picture reflected accurately how it had in fact felt to that registrar. That might suggest that this lecture should be explaining and commending STV as general good practice, but in the event the process and virtues of STV have here to be largely taken for granted. I offer here one short commendation of STV.

Designing Electoral Institutions: STV Systems and Their Consequences

1996 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Farrell ◽  
Malcolm Mackerras ◽  
Ian McAllister
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Party System ◽  
Proportional Representation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Electoral Institutions ◽  
Generic Type ◽  
Single Transferable Vote ◽  
Party Strategies

Although championed by advocates of proportional representation, the single transferable vote form of PR has been used consistently in only a small number of countries – principally Australia, Ireland and Malta. This paper examines the origins and development of STV and its implications for the political systems that use it. The results show that STV varies so widely in its form and application, differing on no less than five major characteristics, that it is impossible to identify any single generic type. These differences are also reflected in the party strategies that are used to maximize the vote under STV. A regression analysis of the various types of STV shows that Malta is the most proportional system, followed by Ireland and Tasmania. Ireland has the largest party system among the countries that use STV, net of other factors.

scholarly journals Proportional Representation in Ireland

1920 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-324
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Proportional Representation ◽  
Municipal Elections ◽  
Single Transferable Vote ◽  
Successful Trial ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Made In

In January, 1919, a successful trial of proportional representation was made in the municipal elections of Sligo, and in the following July a local government (Ireland) act extended the system to all Irish municipal elections. The form employed is the Hare plan, the “single transferable vote,” as it is usually called in the United Kingdom. On January 15, 1920, the first general trial of the new scheme was made, when elections were carried out in 127 Irish municipalities.

Game importance as a dimension of uncertainty of outcome

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinrong Lei ◽  
Brad R. Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Sports Teams ◽  
Game Outcome ◽  
Uncertainty Of Outcome ◽  
Margin Of Victory

AbstractSports teams have incentives to put more effort into games with an immediate effect on standings compared to games that do not, possibly affecting outcome uncertainty. We develop a measure of game outcome uncertainty, game importance (GI), that captures how each game affects a team’s standing and can be calculated for individual games. Results show that observed variation in GI explains observed variation in attendance, game outcomes, and margin of victory at MLB games over the 1994 through 2010 seasons, suggesting that GI is an influential indicator in fans’ attendance decisions, consistent with the uncertainty of outcome hypothesis.

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