Appendix 1 – Data Tables
Table 1: Percentage votes cast and seats won for the 2005 UK General Election.
Table 2: Percentage votes cast and seats won for the 2004 European Parliamentary Election (UK).
Table 3: Percentage votes cast and seats won for the 2007 Northern Irish Assembly Election.
Party
Con
Lab
UKIP
Lib Dem
Green
BNP
% Votes (v)
26.74%
22.62%
16.12%
14.91%
6.25%
4.92%
% Seats (s)
36.00%
25.33%
16.00%
16.00%
2.67%
0.00%
Difference
-9.26%
-2.72%
0.12%
-1.09%
3.59%
4.92%
Party
Respect
SNP
Plaid Cymru English Democrats Liberal Others
% Votes (v)
1.53%
1.41%
0.97%
0.79%
0.59%
3.15%
% Seats (s)
0.00%
2.67%
1.33%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
Difference
1.53%
-1.26%
-0.36%
0.79%
0.59%
3.15%
Party
DUP
Sinn Fein
UUP
SDLP
APNI
% Votes (v)
30.62%
26.62%
15.21%
15.50%
5.33%
% Seats (s)
33.33%
25.93%
16.67%
15.74%
6.48%
Difference
-2.71%
0.69%
-1.46%
-0.24%
-1.15%
Party
PUP
Independent
Con
UKU
Others
% Votes (v)
0.56%
0.56%
0.51%
1.54%
3.55%
% Seats (s)
0.93%
0.93%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
Difference
-0.36%
-0.37%
0.51%
1.54%
3.55%
Party
Lab
Con
Lib Dem
DUP
SNP
% Votes (v)
35.24%
32.36%
22.05%
0.89%
1.52%
% Seats (s)
55.11%
30.65%
9.60%
1.39%
0.93%
Difference
-19.87%
1.71%
12.45%
-0.50%
0.59%
Party
Sinn Fein Plaid Cymru
SDLP
UUP
Respect
% Votes (v)
0.64%
0.64%
0.46%
0.47%
0.25%
% Seats (s)
0.77%
0.46%
0.46%
0.15%
0.15%
Difference
-0.13%
0.18%
0.00%
0.31%
0.10%
Party
Ind
UKIP
Green
BNP
SSP
% Votes (v)
0.07%
2.23%
0.95%
0.71%
0.16%
% Seats (s)
0.15%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
Difference
-0.09%
2.23%
0.95%
0.71%
0.16%
Party
Veritas
Alliance
Scots Greens
Liberal
Others
% Votes (v)
0.15%
0.10%
0.09%
0.07%
0.93%
% Seats (s)
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
0.15%
Difference
0.15%
0.10%
0.09%
0.07%
0.78%
Table 4: Results and workings for each voting system for modelled data (single member
constituency)
Table 5: r-value of just under 1 when candidate B received 30% of the vote.
Table 6: Constituencies selected through random number generation.
FPTP
Purple
16
Green
19
Green wins
Orange
5
Purple
16
Green
19
Green wins
Orange
5
Party
List
Candidate
A
0.7
0