Greetings all!
The details of how Ed Milliband bubbled to the top over
the 4 rounds of the Leadership Election have been widely
summarised -- e.g.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-1141254
However, I have not seen the full details. It seems there
were 4 "constituencies":
-- MPs and MEPs
-- Party Members
-- Unions
-- Affiliated Societies
And there were 5 candidates. I don't know the details of
the voting system -- e.g. were voters required to list
all 5 in order of preference, or up to 5, or some fixed
number less than 5, or ... ?
Nor do I know the rules for allocating the redistribution
of votes as candidates got eliminated round-by-round.
However, someone must know these things. One of you?
Got a URL?
I'm intrigued by the sequence of events, and would like
to trace through what happened to the votes. To do this
in detail would need knowledge of the numerical distribution
of the votes at first instance.
In the most detailed possible case, this means, for each of
the 120 possible orderings of the 5 candidates, how many
votes in each "constituency" were made for each ordering
(of course it is very likely that not all orderings would
be represented). I should imagine that knowledge of the
voting by each voter would be confidential, but the voting
by "constituency" (per possible ordering) may not be.
Does anyone have a pointer to this information? Given the
percentages quoted (e.g.) in the above BBC URL, it might
be possible to reconstruct it if one knew the numbers of
ballot papers in the different "constituencies".
If I can get this information, I will later post the results
of my tracking!
With thanks,
Ted.
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