Counting Votes (multi-seat election) 

Redistributing those votes means removing 666 votes from Bill Jones’ tally so that his total just meets the threshold.  Then his surplus votes are added to the other candidate’s tallies and the votes are recounted:

No other candidate in this example reaches threshold of 3334 after the surplus votes are redistributed. If a candidate had reached the threshold at this point, he or she would be declared elected and no further counting would be required. 

Since we don’t have another candidate with enough votes to be elected, the next step is to hold a “runoff election.”  The last-place candidate is eliminated and his or her votes are distributed to the next choice on each ballot.  In our example, Mohamed Ahmed is defeated and his 1166.5 votes will be redistributed in the next step.

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