Single Transferrable Vote is a method of Proportional Representation (PR) used in Northern Ireland for Assembly Elections. It was chosen as a voting system in the Good Friday Agreement to prevent majority rule and to increase representation in Northern Ireland. As a result this is supposed to reduce the Democratic deficit.
HOW IT WORKS:
HOW IT WORKS:
- In an Assembly election using STV, constituencies elect 5 MLAs per constituency (originally six). A party can put forward as many candidates as it likes per constituency.
- Voters mark the candidates 1, 2, 3, etc. in order of preference, with '1' for their first choice of candidate, '2' for their second and so on. Voters do not have to state a preference for all candidates – they can choose as many or as few as they like.
- STV awards seats in proportion to the number of votes cast, with voters’ lower ranking preferences taken into account.
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