Statatics from Election Results

[BruceH]

Only slightly related to Bill's original post, in 2014 the Republic of Ireland held elections for local councils across the whole of the country. As you may know, Ireland uses the single transferable vote system of proportional representation, which can be tricky to understand and harder to explain.

Fortunately there's a nice little animation available which shows exactly what happens. Just click on any of the constituencies listed using a Javascript enabled browser.