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STV Guide and visualisations

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Date
2016, 2019
Category
Web development,
Data visualisation
Tech
JavaScript,
D3,
SVG
Screenshot of the STV Guide website. Shows a diagram with descriptions of what happens at each count of an STV election.

New Zealand’s local councils have slowly been adopting an STV-based voting system - where voters rank candidates in order of preference, rather than choosing a single person to give their vote to.

To help provide the public with a clearer understanding of the system, I collaborated with designer Thomas Le Bas to extend my earlier Flag Graph visualisation into an informative website that provides interactive examples showing how votes are counted in a few common scenarios.

Following New Zealand’s 2019 local elections, I extended this to produce a series of static charts showing the vote transfers for STV-based mayoral elections.