User talk:Squirrel3.14

Source for election results?
Where are you getting this kind of number? Some of these seem entirely unnecessary (for ex., when there are only two candidates left, and all transfers from surpluses and excluded candidates have been completed, the one with the most votes is obviously the one elected: see how this kind of information is reported in similar STV elections in Northern Ireland or in the Republic of Ireland, both a mere stone throw away from Scotland) and border on the fictitious. Also, unrelated question, is this your first account or did you have other ones previously? Thanks, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 13:25, 9 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, I don't really see any difference in how I'm displaying the results to what the Irish examples you've linked to do? It's also consistent with previous Scottish elections.
 * For Edinburgh its annoying because the council haven't published the votes per stage report, only the initial votes and what was later transferred, so we have to add the transfers on manually to get these tables.
 * For example, look at the "Report - candidate votes per stage" for Highland Council, these are the numbers needed.
 * Regarding the unnecessary stage that sometimes appears at the end - the computers that count the votes report this automatically if the candidate hasn't met the quota. Your Irish examples don't appear to include this, but the previous Scottish ones do (and it is technically a stage in the process).
 * I renamed this account fairly recently but its the only one I've had. spirit of the squirrel (talk) 13:40, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Re. format: candidates should be ordered by when they were elected/excluded so as to avoid the otherwise seemingly random gaps which appear in the tables when this is not done (this has the advantage of not only being more pleasing to look at, but also putting the most important information [which candidates were elected] at the top). Also, putting non-breaking spaces (i.e. example here) for counts after candidates have been excluded or elected is also better. And while it might probably be very much a rare occurrence with Scottish local elections, such an organisation also makes the tables far more readable when the number of counts starts going up (for ex. Belfast_South_(Assembly_constituency)...) RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 02:24, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Re. unnecessary final counts: the Irish examples don't include them because they appear to be done by actual humans and not by some dumb computers :). On a more serious tone, other sources, for ex., don't include those unnecessary counts either. Cheers, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 02:22, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

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