Transferable Vote

Single Transferable Vote in Constitutional Law

From the Comparative Constitutions Project: The Single Transferable Vote, or STV, is a preference voting system designed to minimise wasted votes in multicandidate elections while ensuring that votes are explicitly for candidates rather than party lists. In its most basic form, it works by allocating an elector’s vote to their highest ranked candidate who has not already been removed from contention through either election or elimination.