Editing Single transferable vote (section)

==== Seventh round ====
If the ranking of the candidates is important, the votes belonging to the eliminated Candidate B1 are transferred as per below, assuming voters' alternate preferences are marked that way.
{| class="wikitable"
!Candidate
! colspan="2" |Party
!Votes
!Quota
!Elected?
!If elected: surplus votes
|-
|<s>Candidate A1</s>
| style="background:#D10000" |
|Party A
|
| rowspan="9" |20%
|
|
|-
|<s>Candidate A2</s>
| style="background:#D10000" |
|Party A
|
|
|
|-
|'''Candidate A3'''
| style="background:#D10000" |
|'''Party A'''
|'''already elected'''
|'''Yes'''
|
|-
|'''Candidate A4'''
| style="background:#D10000" |
|'''Party A'''
|'''already elected'''
|'''Yes'''
|
|-
|<s>Candidate A5</s>
| style="background:#D10000" |
|Party A
|
|
|
|-
|'''Candidate I'''
|
|Independent
|15% + 5% = 20%
|'''Yes'''
|
|-
|<s>Candidate B1</s>
| style="background:#0008A5" |
|Party B
|11% − 11% = 0%
|
|
|-
|'''Candidate B2'''
| style="background:#0008A5" |
|Party B
|18% + 6% = 24%
|'''Yes'''
|
|-
|'''Candidate B3'''
| style="background:#0008A5" |
|Party B
|16%
|'''Yes'''
|
|-
| colspan="3" |''TOTAL''
|60% (2 already elected)
|
|
|
|}

Under STV, candidates A3, A4, I, B2 and B3 were elected.

This vote count varies from the reality of many STV systems because there were no "exhausted" non-transferable votes. In most real-life STV elections, some votes that are set to be transferred cannot be and fewer votes are still in play at the end compared to the first round. As well, the Droop quota is usually used in real-life STV elections. With the Droop quota in effect and five seats to be filled, it would have taken 17 percent to be elected with quota, not 20 percent as under the Hare quota. However, if B2's surplus votes under the Droop quota are transferred to any non–Party A candidate, the same five candidates are elected each time, albeit in a slightly different order.

In the first round, 74 percent of votes were cast for candidates who were successful in the end. In this case, as in all STV elections, about 80 percent or more of the votes were used to actually elect someone. Only the 11 percent of votes cast in the end for B1 were not used to elect someone. The members elected in the district represent the sentiments of a large majority of the voters. Due to the diversity of members elected, each voter has someone elected who shares the party label that they voted for in the first place, even if not the individual candidate they preferred, or has seen the election of the independent candidate that they prefer.