Viewing Meek STV Results
Meek STV (Single Transferable Vote) elects multiple winners using a quota-based counting process: candidates who reach the quota are elected and their surplus votes are transferred proportionally, while candidates with the fewest votes are eliminated and their votes redistributed, until all seats are filled. Voters rank all choices in order of preference. This page explains how to access and interpret the results of a Meek STV vote.
Accessing Results
To view the results of a Meek STV vote:
Navigate to Collaboration > Voting in the PCC.
Locate the poll in the polls table.
Click the poll name, or click the overflow menu and select View Results.
The results panel opens on the right side of the screen.
Results Panel Overview
The results panel is divided into several sections, from top to bottom:
Poll Details — identifying information about the poll
Participation Metrics — response and participation statistics
Summary Cards — total valid votes, abstained count, number of winners, and quota
Question Results — the vote outcome and detailed breakdowns for each question
An Export menu in the top-right corner of the panel lets you download the results as CSV or PNG.
Poll Details
At the top of the results panel, you will see:
Voting Type — displays "Meek STV"
Committee — the committee whose members were invited to vote
Poll Name — the title of the poll
Description — the poll description, truncated to 300 characters with a "show more" option
Participation Metrics
Four metric cards are displayed below the poll details:
Total Responses
The number of members who submitted a response (vote or abstention)
Invited
The total number of voting invitations sent
Participation
The percentage of invited members who responded (Total Responses / Invited)
Status
Whether the poll is Active or Ended, along with the end date and time in Pacific Time
Summary Cards
Below the participation metrics, up to four summary cards are shown:
Total Valid Votes — the number of valid votes counted in the Meek STV process. When pseudo-anonymity is disabled, a View voters link appears in the card.
Abstained — the number of members who chose to abstain. This card only appears if the Allow Abstain Option was enabled when the poll was created. A View voters link is also available when pseudo-anonymity is disabled.
Number of Winners — the number of choices to be elected, as configured when the poll was created.
Droop Quota — the minimum number of votes a choice needs to guarantee election.
Question Results
Each question in the poll displays the election outcome and detailed round-by-round breakdown.
Multiple Questions
If the poll contains more than one question, results are organized into tabs labeled Question 1, Question 2, and so on. Click a tab to view the results for that question.
Meek STV Final Voting Outcome
This section announces the result of the vote:
Vote in progress
A blue information box: "The vote is currently in progress. Final results will be available once voting has ended."
Winner(s) selected
A green box with a trophy icon naming the elected choice(s), noting they "met the required quota through proportional vote transfers reflecting voter preferences"
No winners
A gray box: "No winner(s) could be determined through the Meek STV counting process."
Below the outcome, an explanation panel describes how to read the Round Summary Table (the meaning of the Round, Action, Vote Counts, Redistribution, and Quota columns) and the color coding used for vote status: Elected (green), Eliminated (red), and Continuing (blue).
Round Summary Table
A round-by-round breakdown of the Meek STV counting process. For each round, the table shows:
Round — the round number. Counting stops once the required number of winners is reached.
Action — what happened that round (election, elimination, or continuing)
Vote Counts — current vote totals for each choice, sorted highest to lowest, with each choice labeled by its status (elected, eliminated, or continuing)
Redistribution — how surplus votes (from elected choices) or transferred votes (from eliminated choices) were distributed to remaining choices
Quota — the quota in effect for that round
Rank Distribution
A table showing how many votes each choice received at each rank position (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and so on). When pseudo-anonymity is disabled, click a non-zero cell to view the voters who ranked that choice at that position.
Poll Comments
If the poll creator added comment questions when creating the vote, a Comments tab appears next to the Voting tab in the results panel.
If the poll has more than one comment question, each one appears as a numbered tab (Question 1, Question 2, and so on).
Each comment question shows the number of responses and, when pseudo-anonymity is disabled, the individual responses with the voter's name, response text, and the time it was submitted.
When pseudo-anonymity is disabled, you can click the response count to open a Comment Respondents list, which shows who has responded and lets you view an individual voter's full set of comments or email them.
If a comment question has no responses yet, it shows a message indicating comments will appear once voters submit feedback.
Viewing Voter Details
When pseudo-anonymity is disabled, you can view individual voters from several places in the results panel: the View voters links on the Total Valid Votes and Abstained cards, and the clickable counts in the Rank Distribution table.
When pseudo-anonymity is enabled, voter identity information is not available in the PCC interface. Vote counts are still displayed, but you cannot view individual voter details.
Exporting Results
To export the poll results:
Click the Export menu in the top-right corner of the results panel.
Select Export as CSV to download a spreadsheet of the results, or Export as PNG to download an image of the results panel.
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