Word: quota
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Under the Hare proportional representation system, voters rank the candidates. Candidates are elected if they meet a quota of votes, and their excess votes are transferred to the next-ranked candidate. Low candidates' votes are also redistributed in later rounds...
...total of 23,363 people turned out to vote, an unusually low turnout in comparison with recent elections. That number will probably put the quota, or number of number one or transfer votes a candidate must have to be ensured a council seat, at somewhere around...
Under Cambridge's system of proportional representation any votes a candidate earns above the quota are redistributed to the second choice on the ballot...
...second candidate on the ballot has also reached the necessary quota the votes go to the number three ballot choice...
Similarly the votes that go to candidate who do not reach the quota are redistributed to the second choice...