SingleTransferableVote(STV)

Single Transferable Preference Vote (STPV) is method of counting used in 'Proportional Representation' method of election. Its a very complex system of voting where each voter get only one vote and he is supposed to rank the candidates. One or more than one winner is selected based on candidates getting maximum first preference plus transferred votes. Votes of Candidate who gets least votes are transferred to other candidates based on second and subsequent preference.

President of India, Rajya Sabha, CA Institute, Bar council and several such elections use STPV method of vote counting. Such counting generally take thousands of man hours. With Right2Vote platform even STPV counting happens in almost real-time.