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@ Number 57: Your addition on the total numbers of voters is nice! However, I do not understand the percentages per candidate you gave. Did you fetch them from somewhere else; or were they forinstance calculated by a programme that is chiefly intended for one person per constituency elections?
I think that in general in elections in the Channel Islands each voter is allowed to vote for several candidates. Therefore, the total number of votes cast is considerably higher than the total number of voters. However, isn't the interesting question rather "What percentage of the voters voted for John Doe?" rather than "What percentage of the total number of votes, counted for each candidate separately and then added, were cast for John Doe?" This is not the same thing, as you easily can see.
In this case, if I understand this correctly, out of the 940 people casting valid votes, 624 (66.2%) voted for James Dent, and 527 (56.0%) voted for Louis Jean. (Obviously, many people used their right to vote for several candidates.) I think, that we should give these percentages rather than the ones you gave (16.0% and 13.5%, respectively), if we should give any percentages at all.
This does not concern just this 2016 particular election, but also Alderney general election, 2014, and perhaps some others. (Compare with Alderney general election, 2010, where the percentages obviously were calculated in the manner I suggest!)
Regards, JoergenB ( talk) 19:02, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
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@ Number 57: Your addition on the total numbers of voters is nice! However, I do not understand the percentages per candidate you gave. Did you fetch them from somewhere else; or were they forinstance calculated by a programme that is chiefly intended for one person per constituency elections?
I think that in general in elections in the Channel Islands each voter is allowed to vote for several candidates. Therefore, the total number of votes cast is considerably higher than the total number of voters. However, isn't the interesting question rather "What percentage of the voters voted for John Doe?" rather than "What percentage of the total number of votes, counted for each candidate separately and then added, were cast for John Doe?" This is not the same thing, as you easily can see.
In this case, if I understand this correctly, out of the 940 people casting valid votes, 624 (66.2%) voted for James Dent, and 527 (56.0%) voted for Louis Jean. (Obviously, many people used their right to vote for several candidates.) I think, that we should give these percentages rather than the ones you gave (16.0% and 13.5%, respectively), if we should give any percentages at all.
This does not concern just this 2016 particular election, but also Alderney general election, 2014, and perhaps some others. (Compare with Alderney general election, 2010, where the percentages obviously were calculated in the manner I suggest!)
Regards, JoergenB ( talk) 19:02, 12 July 2017 (UTC)