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Round 1  Votes  255 49/84 (14.3%) Max Irene SCURR     336    (18.8%)  1 John Stuart BELLAMY     332    (18.6%)  1 Lox KELLAS     323    (18.1%)  1 Sam NEILL     274    (15.3%)  1 Bill ALLEN     187    (10.5%)  1 Andrew BROWN     155    (8.7%)  1 Kay DICKSON     92    (5.1%)  1 Ray MCCORMICK     90    (5.0%)  1           Results       John Stuart BELLAMY Elected     Lox KELLAS Elected     Sam NEILL Elected     Irene SCURR Elected               Transfers (to these colors):     Transfers (from these colors):               Histograms  Surplus   New Max  Votes: Ballots   John Stuart BELLAMY 76 35/84 48/84 1: 314   Lox KELLAS 67 35/84 38/84 1: 297   Sam NEILL 18 35/84 39/84 1: 260   Irene SCURR 80 35/84 42/84 1: 324

Each ballot initially counts toward its highest-ranked eligible choice. However, in future rounds, a maximum fraction of a ballot may be imposed on a candidate. This allows voters for popular winners (or for eliminated losers) to help unelected candidates or candidates elected later. If there are no such candidates, the leftover fraction goes back to the first winner, or count toward "none of these" if there are no ranked winners.

The ballot fraction precision is equal to 1/Seats(Seats+1), which ensures that winners can always be kept between Enough votes to win, more than (Total Votes for Candidates)/(Seats+1), and the Ideal Number of votes, (Total Votes for Candidates)/Seats.
If all winners have at least "Enough" votes, it is impossible to elect too many candidates. This number is Ballots/(Seats+1) plus the smallest fraction.
If all winners have exactly the Ideal Number of votes, and they each have an equal voice, everyone who voted for a winner is equally represented.
The dotted line on the graph represents Enough votes.
The histogram shows how many ballots count a given fraction of a vote toward a winner. It is used to determine how much to lower the maximum. Ballots that cannot count for a lower-ranked candidate are not included in the histogram. The maximum is reduced in steps of the defined fractional precision, reducing the surplus by the number of ballots in the affected histogram bins divided by that precision. This process stops just before too many would be transferred. At this point, the affected bins are shown in red.
When only winners remain, they may reduce their maxima toward the Ideal Number.

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Round 2  Votes  255 49/84 (14.3%) Max Irene SCURR     263 57/84  (14.7%)  42/84 John Stuart BELLAMY     266 53/84  (14.9%)  48/84 Lox KELLAS     261 9/84  (14.6%)  38/84 Sam NEILL     259 34/84  (14.5%)  39/84 Bill ALLEN     256 71/84  (14.4%)  1 Andrew BROWN     200 32/84  (11.2%)  1 Kay DICKSON     150 70/84  (8.4%)  1 Ray MCCORMICK     130 10/84  (7.3%)  1           Results       Bill ALLEN Elected     John Stuart BELLAMY Equalized     Lox KELLAS Equalized     Irene SCURR Equalized     Sam NEILL Equalized               Transfers (to these colors):     Transfers (from these colors):               Histograms  Surplus   New Max  Votes: Ballots   Bill ALLEN 1 22/84 80/84 1: 182 46/84: 19 45/84: 28 42/84: 33 36/84: 47 7/84: 23 4/84: 20 3/84: 36   John Stuart BELLAMY 11 4/84 44/84 48/84: 314 46/84: 40 45/84: 19 42/84: 44 7/84: 27 4/84: 17 3/84: 21   Lox KELLAS 5 44/84 36/84 38/84: 423 36/84: 73 3/84: 62   Irene SCURR 8 8/84 40/84 42/84: 435 36/84: 59 7/84: 49   Sam NEILL 3 69/84 38/84 39/84: 472 38/84: 37 6/84: 29 1/84: 31

The histogram shows how many ballots count a given fraction of a vote toward a winner. It is used to determine how much to lower the maximum. Ballots that cannot count for a lower-ranked candidate are not included in the histogram. The maximum is reduced in steps of the defined fractional precision, reducing the surplus by the number of ballots in the affected histogram bins divided by that precision. This process stops just before too many would be transferred. At this point, the affected bins are shown in red.
When only winners remain, they may reduce their maxima toward the Ideal Number.

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Round 3  Votes  255 49/84 (14.3%) Max Irene SCURR     261 30/84  (14.6%)  40/84 John Stuart BELLAMY     258    (14.4%)  44/84 Lox KELLAS     256 18/84  (14.3%)  36/84 Sam NEILL     259 42/84  (14.5%)  38/84 Bill ALLEN     256 60/84  (14.3%)  80/84 Andrew BROWN     206 18/84  (11.5%)  1 Kay DICKSON     157 30/84  (8.8%)  1 Ray MCCORMICK     133 54/84  (7.5%)  1           Results       Ray MCCORMICK Defeated               Transfers (to these colors):

No elected candidates could reduce their maxima, so candidates were eliminated instead.
The last-place candidate is eliminated.
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Round 4  Votes  254 49/84 (14.3%) Max Irene SCURR     277 58/84  (15.6%)  40/84 John Stuart BELLAMY     266 18/84  (14.9%)  44/84 Lox KELLAS     273 54/84  (15.4%)  36/84 Sam NEILL     290 70/84  (16.3%)  38/84 Bill ALLEN     276 70/84  (15.5%)  80/84 Andrew BROWN     222 70/84  (12.5%)  1 Kay DICKSON     173 80/84  (9.8%)  1 None of these     7                Results       Bill ALLEN Equalized     John Stuart BELLAMY Equalized     Lox KELLAS Equalized     Sam NEILL Equalized     Irene SCURR Equalized               Transfers (to these colors):     Transfers (from these colors):               Histograms  Surplus   New Max  Votes: Ballots   Bill ALLEN 22 21/84 54/84 80/84: 190 48/84: 24 46/84: 33 44/84: 39 40/84: 48 10/84: 29 8/84: 20 6/84: 40 4/84: 18 2/84: 9   John Stuart BELLAMY 11 53/84 35/84 44/84: 426 10/84: 36 8/84: 18 6/84: 26 4/84: 72   Lox KELLAS 19 5/84 28/84 36/84: 517 6/84: 71 4/84: 28 2/84: 11   Sam NEILL 36 21/84 29/84 38/84: 563 8/84: 31 4/84: 56   Irene SCURR 23 9/84 32/84 40/84: 517 10/84: 61 4/84: 52 2/84: 17

The histogram shows how many ballots count a given fraction of a vote toward a winner. It is used to determine how much to lower the maximum. Ballots that cannot count for a lower-ranked candidate are not included in the histogram. The maximum is reduced in steps of the defined fractional precision, reducing the surplus by the number of ballots in the affected histogram bins divided by that precision. This process stops just before too many would be transferred. At this point, the affected bins are shown in red.
When only winners remain, they may reduce their maxima toward the Ideal Number.

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Round 5  Votes  254 49/84 (14.3%) Max Irene SCURR     263 27/84  (14.8%)  32/84 John Stuart BELLAMY     263 7/84  (14.8%)  35/84 Lox KELLAS     259 66/84  (14.6%)  28/84 Sam NEILL     262 52/84  (14.7%)  29/84 Bill ALLEN     262 79/84  (14.8%)  54/84 Andrew BROWN     254 61/84  (14.3%)  1 Kay DICKSON     215 44/84  (12.1%)  1 None of these     7                Results       Andrew BROWN Elected               Histograms  Surplus   New Max  Votes: Ballots   Andrew BROWN   12/84 1 1: 144 56/84: 16 55/84: 17 52/84: 16 49/84: 36 30/84: 15 27/84: 10 24/84: 7 23/84: 21 21/84: 15 20/84: 6 17/84: 13 2/84: 4 1/84: 4

The histogram shows how many ballots count a given fraction of a vote toward a winner. It is used to determine how much to lower the maximum. Ballots that cannot count for a lower-ranked candidate are not included in the histogram. The maximum is reduced in steps of the defined fractional precision, reducing the surplus by the number of ballots in the affected histogram bins divided by that precision. This process stops just before too many would be transferred. At this point, the affected bins are shown in red.
When only winners remain, they may reduce their maxima toward the Ideal Number.

There is a newly elected candidate whose maximum could not be reduced. The surplus is lower than the number of ballots in the first histogram bin (the ballots counting the largest fraction toward the candidate) times the smallest fraction, so they cannot all transfer that fraction without exceeding the surplus.
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Round 6  Votes  254 49/84 (14.3%) Max Irene SCURR     263 27/84  (14.8%)  32/84 John Stuart BELLAMY     263 7/84  (14.8%)  35/84 Lox KELLAS     259 66/84  (14.6%)  28/84 Sam NEILL     262 52/84  (14.7%)  29/84 Bill ALLEN     262 79/84  (14.8%)  54/84 Andrew BROWN     254 61/84  (14.3%)  1 Kay DICKSON     215 44/84  (12.1%)  1 None of these     7                Results       Kay DICKSON Defeated               Transfers (to these colors):

No elected candidates could reduce their maxima, so candidates were eliminated instead.
The last-place candidate is eliminated.
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Round 7  Votes  296 (16.7%) Max Irene SCURR     306 2/84  (17.2%)  32/84 John Stuart BELLAMY     297 52/84  (16.8%)  35/84 Lox KELLAS     290 4/84  (16.3%)  28/84 Sam NEILL     300 30/84  (16.9%)  29/84 Bill ALLEN     300 33/84  (16.9%)  54/84 Andrew BROWN     281 47/84  (15.9%)  1 None of these     13                Results       Bill ALLEN Equalized     Irene SCURR Equalized               Transfers (to these colors):     Transfers (from these colors):               Histograms  Surplus   New Max  Votes: Ballots   Bill ALLEN 4 33/84 53/84 54/84: 264 52/84: 45 49/84: 52 27/84: 46 24/84: 25 23/84: 55 21/84: 20 20/84: 13 17/84: 24   Irene SCURR 10 2/84 31/84 32/84: 564 30/84: 35 27/84: 71 21/84: 25 20/84: 22 2/84: 13 1/84: 10

The histogram shows how many ballots count a given fraction of a vote toward a winner. It is used to determine how much to lower the maximum. Ballots that cannot count for a lower-ranked candidate are not included in the histogram. The maximum is reduced in steps of the defined fractional precision, reducing the surplus by the number of ballots in the affected histogram bins divided by that precision. This process stops just before too many would be transferred. At this point, the affected bins are shown in red.
When only winners remain, they may reduce their maxima toward the Ideal Number.

Only winners remain, so the dotted line is raised to the Ideal Number.
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Round 8  Votes  296 (16.7%) Max Irene SCURR     300 7/84  (16.9%)  31/84 John Stuart BELLAMY     299 80/84  (16.9%)  35/84 Lox KELLAS     291 67/84  (16.4%)  28/84 Sam NEILL     301 72/84  (17.0%)  29/84 Bill ALLEN     299 21/84  (16.8%)  53/84 Andrew BROWN     283 5/84  (15.9%)  1 None of these     13                Results         Bill ALLEN Elected     John Stuart BELLAMY Elected     Andrew BROWN Elected     Lox KELLAS Elected     Sam NEILL Elected     Irene SCURR Elected

No further maximum reductions are allowed, so the count is complete. All winners should be near the Ideal Number of votes. Usually most ballots count toward their highest-ranked winner. Some count for two winners, but rarely more than that. See the slice report. The depth report shows the contribution of lower choices to the result. The "none of these" pile is an accurate measure of unsatisfied voters.

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Rank	Fraction of votes for winners
1st	44.7%
2nd	33.1%

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Slices	Percentage of ballots with that many slices
1	15.5%
2	27.8%
3	56.6%