Hi Michael
I see what you are saying, but I’m still unclear as to how all the different rankings of every voter are brought together to decide the winner. In your example, if the Green and Lib Dem candidates didn’t get very many ‘first’ votes, and they were eliminated, then your other preferences would be ignored. I am not clear under what circumstances anyone would look at your 3rd place preference, or 4th, or 5th etc. Also, in some constituencies there might be more than a dozen candidates, some very obscure – are voters to be expected to rank them all in order of preference?
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