means all the operations involved in counting of the first preferences “count” recorded for candidates, the transfer of the surpluses of elected candidates, and the transfer of the votes of the excluded candidates, to be elected” means deemed to be elected for the purposes of counting “deemed of votes but without prejudice to the declaration of the result of the poll, means a figure, an identifiable written word, or a mark such as “mark” “X”, vote” means a ballot document: “non-transferable on which no second or subsequent preference is recorded for a continuing candidate, or which is excluded by the returning officer under rule STV49, as used in the following contexts has the meaning assigned below: “preference” means the or any mark or word which clearly “first preference” figure “1” indicates a first (or only) preference, (b) available means a preference which is the second, or as “next preference” the case may be, subsequent preference recorded in consecutive order for a continuing candidate (any candidate who is deemed to be elected or is excluded thereby being ignored); and in this context, a is shown by the figure or any mark “second preference” “2” or word which clearly indicates a second preference, and a third preference by the figure or any mark or word which clearly indicates a third “3” preference, and so on, means the number calculated in accordance with rule STV46, “quota” means the number of votes by which the total number of votes for any “surplus” candidate (whether first preference or transferred votes, or a combination of both) exceeds the quota; but references in these rules to the transfer of the surplus means the transfer (at a transfer value) of all transferable ballot documents from the candidate who has the surplus, of the count” “stage means: (a) the determination of the first preference vote of each candidate, (b) the transfer of a surplus of a candidate deemed to be elected, or (c) the exclusion of one or more candidates at any given time, vote” means a ballot document on which, following a first preference, “transferable a second or subsequent preference is recorded in consecutive numerical order for a continuing candidate, vote” means a vote derived from a ballot document on which a second “transferred or subsequent preference is recorded for the candidate to whom that ballot document has been transferred, and
“count” means all the operations involved in counting of the first preferences recorded for candidates, the transfer of the surpluses of elected candidates, and the transfer of the votes of the excluded candidates, “deemed to be elected” means deemed to be elected for the purposes of counting of votes but without prejudice to the declaration of the result of the poll, “mark” means a figure, an identifiable written word, or a mark such as “X”, “non-transferable vote” means a ballot document: on which no second or subsequent preference is recorded for a continuing candidate, or which is excluded by the returning officer under rule STV49, “preference” as used in the following contexts has the meaning assigned below: “first preference” means the figure “1” or any mark or word which clearly indicates a first (or only) preference, (b) “next available preference” means a preference which is the second, or as the case may be, subsequent preference recorded in consecutive order for a continuing candidate (any candidate who is deemed to be elected or is excluded thereby being ignored); and in this context, a “second preference” is shown by the figure “2” or any mark or word which clearly indicates a second preference, and a third preference by the figure “3” or any mark or word which clearly indicates a third preference, and so on, “quota” means the number calculated in accordance with rule STV46, “surplus” means the number of votes by which the total number of votes for any candidate (whether first preference or transferred votes, or a combination of both) exceeds the quota; but references in these rules to the transfer of the surplus means the transfer (at a transfer value) of all transferable ballot documents from the candidate who has the surplus, “stage of the count” means: (a) the determination of the first preference vote of each candidate, (b) the transfer of a surplus of a candidate deemed to be elected, or (c) the exclusion of one or more candidates at any given time, “transferable vote” means a ballot document on which, following a first preference, a second or subsequent preference is recorded in consecutive numerical order for a continuing candidate, “transferred vote” means a vote derived from a ballot document on which a second or subsequent preference is recorded for the candidate to whom that ballot document has been transferred, and
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