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Again, similarly to FPTP, the candidate who tops the poll will be declared elected. In the case of two running on a closed list the primary candidate will be elected. Additionally, any other candidate (or list) that exceeds the Droop quota will also be declared elected. In a few cases, mostly inner-city Labour seats, a party may obtain two Droop quotas - more than 66.67% - in which case both candidates of that party are elected, and the seat closed. A little over half the MPs should be elected in this manner, and election night coverage by TV networks would initially not look too different to what it does under FPTP.
In the case where two party candidates are running separately, and their combined party vote either wins a plurality over all other party votes, or it exceeds the quota, a further STV
==Subsequent members elected==
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The national count centre and TV networks would rank these remainders separately for each party from highest to lowest, including the constituency name, as results become available. As election night develops these rankings become indicative of those parties which will win the available second seats, and where they will win them.
In simple terms, the number of seats already won by each party on the first count is deducted from their national seat allocation and the ''n'' best remainder quotas for each party are assigned to the relevant constituencies as the second seats. Some parties may
==Adjustments==
It may be that an local independent or micro-party, with no prospect of national seat allocation, makes a breakthrough to quota or plurality in a particular constituency, and hence wins a seat. This is an admirable feature, not a bug, of the system, although its incidence may only be marginally higher than under FPTP.
In such case, the parties' national seat allocation would require to be re-computed, after deducting a seat from the national total initially available. Such adjustments would be automatically calculated by national counting centre and TV network computers.
==National thresholds==
The system, by virtue of the mathematics of squaring, will generate nominal "natural thresholds" for each of the four nations. The actual figures will vary slightly, depending on the precise distribution of votes for the parties, but they are approximately:
* England 2%
* Scotland 5%
* Wales 7%
* Northern Ireland 10%
Especially for the smaller countries, these may seem high, until it is recognised the thresholds are not absolutely "hard", nor indeed guaranteed. The additional features of the system afford an alternative route to winning a seat or seats, by virtue of topping a local poll or obtaining a quota. In this respect, the system makes it marginally easier for an independent compared to FPTP. 33.34% compared to perhaps 35-40% under FPTP.
Conversely, a national party in England on 5% could still win no seats if its vote was so uniformly distributed that it obtained no constituency second places.
==Why ranked ballots?==
While not absolutely essential, they would have utility as follows:
* in a handful of cases where a winning party's candidates ran separately in a constituency, it may be more appropriate to employ a kind of STV to identify the winning candidate instead of the alternative, a kind of SNTV.
* the ranked ballots could be subsequently recounted to compute a nationwide two-party preferred vote, as occurs in Australia. In a UK context that may be of value in the event of a hung parliament.
==Advantages and disadvantages==
==Possible anomalies==
==Simulations==
==Links==
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