<div dir="ltr">Hi Joseph,<div><br>As Paul said...<br>"Be careful of drawing conclusions from the numbers and particularly "vote counts" - you can't come up with a simple candidate ranking in an STV election for multiple positions because conceptually one does not exist."<br><br>As I understand it, we do not know if<span style="font-size:12.8px"> Ilya/Peter/Martijn were placed as anybody's 2nd, 3rd, 4th,... or 11th choice.<br></span>If you ignore the rounds, you could say Mikel was a strong 1st-choice candidate with only 8 votes short of the requirement (with Willie being a further 32 1st-choice-votes behind Mikel). Of course, such a statement ignores that people voted knowing they could multiple choices.</div><div><br></div><div>I ranked my votes, as STV allows. However I didn't really care which order my 1st & 2nd choices were in. I didn't really care which order my 4th & 5th were in (I only wanted to vote for them "less" than my first 2 choices), and my 6th, 7th, and 8th choices I voted for just because I felt they were a better option than the remaining candidates (which I didn't vote for). Unfortunately, STV doesn't allow me to put breaks in my voting (I did try), so no analysis from the voting record can say exactly how strong a candidate is.<br><br>What is a strong candidate? Well (assume the majority votes as I do), if my 1st choice didn't run, my 2nd choice is more likely to come 1st place and thus is/was a stronger candidate.</div><div><br></div><div>From slightly South of the 55th parallel North,<br>Gregory.<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 December 2015 at 17:01, Joseph Reeves <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iknowjoseph@gmail.com" target="_blank">iknowjoseph@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I've graphed the results of the 6 rounds as attached. Does this make sense?</div><div><br></div><div>Looks like the 4 successful candidates were strong from the start, with the 7 remaining of us achieving similar sorts of numbers.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, Joseph</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 December 2015 at 22:23, Paul Norman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com" target="_blank">penorman@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On 12/8/2015 5:38 PM, Paul Norman wrote:<br>
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I hope to have full vote breakdowns soon, but don't yet have that information to publish.<br>
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I hope to complete minutes soon, but the essential information is here.<br>
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I have the information, but still need to write up the minutes, hopefully this week.<br>
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For the curious, Richard Weait has posted an analysis at <a href="http://weait.com/osmf-board-election-results-2015" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://weait.com/osmf-board-election-results-2015</a>. For formalities sake, I am noting that I am not certifying his analysis as accurate.<br>
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The main result of his analysis is that there is a big gap between first-choice votes for the four candidates who got in and the others.<div><div><br>
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