This is the voting system in Ireland and though I have an understanding of it, I struggle to explain it to other people, or even to put it into words myself.
Would appreciate any simple explanation, plus what its pros and cons are.
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There are multiple variations on this, but this is the basic idea.
Candidates are eliminated one by one, and the voters who were voting for that person get to move their vote to a “next best” choice each time, until one candidate has a majority of the votes.
You tell people where to move your vote, if required, by putting the candidates in order of preference in some way – writing 1 next to your first choice, 2 next to your second and so on, say.
So everyone only has one vote (“single”) but it can be moved around (it’s “transferable”) to make sure it still counts in every round of voting.
(Like every system, it has its strengths and its weaknesses. But then – there is, literally, no such thing as the “perfect” voting system.)
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