Editing Single transferable vote (section)

===Effective votes===
In the [[2020 Irish election]] where members of Dáil Éireann, known as TDs (Dáil deputies), were elected by single transferable vote from 39 constituencies, each with between three and five seats, members were elected under STV with about the same number of votes and a large proportion of votes cast in each district were used to actually elect someone.

Most elected members were elected by achieving the quota. Thus they were elected by receiving approximately the same number of votes. The few elected without quota received a number of votes close to quota as well.<ref name="auto1"/> A large proportion of the votes were used to elect someone, with relatively few being [[wasted vote|wasted]]. Perhaps one full quota or less is not used to elect someone.<ref name="auto1"/>

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, under STV in 2021, 90 percent of voters saw their vote help to elect a candidate, more than 65 percent of voters saw their first choice candidate elected, and more than 95 percent of voters saw at least one of their top three choices elected.<ref>[http://www.nationalcivicleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Model-City-Charter%E2%80%949th-Edition.pdf Model City Charter] National Civic League</ref>