Editing Single non-transferable vote (section)

===Example===
Three seats are to be filled among five candidates: A, B, C, D and E fielded by 3 parties X, Y and Z.

{| class="wikitable" style="margin-left:1em; border-collapse:collapse;" align="center"
! Votes
! Candidate
! Party
|-
|2,718
|E
|Y
|-
|1,999
|D
|Z
|-
|1,996
|C
|Z
|-
|1,804
|B
|Y
|-
|819
|A
|X
|-
|}
E, D and C are the winning candidates. Thus, Party Z gets two seats and Party Y gets one seat. No one party took all the seats as might have been the result under [[first past the post]] or [[plurality block voting]].

But counting the votes by party gives these vote tallies:
{| class="wikitable" style="margin-left:1em; border-collapse:collapse;" align="center"
! Party
! Votes
! Percent
! Seats
|-
|Y
|4,522
|48
|1
|-
|Z
|3,995
|43
|2
|-
|X
|819
|9
|0
|}

Party Y has more votes than Party Z, but receives fewer seats because of an inefficient spread of votes across the candidates. If Party Y's two candidates had had more equal vote tallies, it would have won two seats and Party Z only one. Or if Party Z's candidates had received less equal vote tallies, Party Y would have won two seats even if its candidates were not equally popular. (There is more chance in SNTV than a more orderly system of PR, such as list PR or STV.)

If either party had risked trying to win all three seats, causing more vote splitting among supporters of Parties Y and Z, then A of Party X might have won a seat and either party Y or Z would then have taken one fewer seat.