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(Created page with "The Alternative Vote (AV) electoral system is used to elect regional councillors to single seats in Scotland. This usually only happens when there is a by-election; when more than one seat is contested AV generalises to STV (Single Transferable Vote). On the morning of 4th December 2021, FITCC community councillor Mark Drayton proposed holding a 'primary' contest to select an independent candidate to contest the Fort William and Ardnamurchan ward (ward 21) in the regio...") |
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Using AV to decide the winner of a primary in each ward would be simpler than running a fully-fledged STV election, and this compromise might well be acceptable to candidates because the result could not anyway be legally binding.
A C program to calculate the winner of an AV election is provided [[BLT|here]].
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