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Purpose

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This template is a version of {{Election results}} modified for single transferable vote (STV) elections, allowing up to 13 counts to be entered. Percentages for the second count onwards can be turned off using the 'nopercentage' function.

Usage

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{{Election results-STV
|caption      = <!--Heading for the table-->
|reporting    = <!--Add percentage reporting here (without the % symbol)-->
|candtitle    = <!--Custom heading for candidate column in DSV elections-->
|partytitle   = <!--Custom heading for party or party/alliances column-->

|nopercentage = <!--To hide percentages for the second count onwards -->

|cand1        = <!--First candidate. Wikilink to candididate's name, or just write out the name if no article exists)-->
|party1       = <!--Political party. If party has an article, use a standard Wikilink, e.g. [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]]. If there is no article, only use the party name-->
|color1       = <!--Manual entry for colour of party if not in the political party modules-->
|votes1       = <!--Votes received by first candidate-->
|votes1_2     = <!--Second count of votes votes received by first candidate-->
|votes1_3     = <!--Third count of votes received by first candidate. Goes up to 13-->
|votes2       = <!--Votes received by second candidate-->
|votes2_2     = <!--Second count of votes votes received by second candidate-->
|votes2_3     = <!--Third count of votes received by second candidate. Goes up to 13-->

|valid        = <!--Number of valid votes if different to party totals – only needed where voters can cast more than one vote in a constituency-->
|invalid      = <!--Number of invalid and blank votes-->
|blank        = <!--Number of blank votes-->
|totalvotes   = <!--Total votes cast when the valid/invalid split is unknown-->
|electorate   = <!--Number of registered voters-->
|turnout      = <!--Manual entry of voter turnout when registered voters is unknown. Overrides and hides any entry of electorate-->

|result       = <!--For displaying results of individual constituency elections-->
|majority     = <!--Majority of the winning candidate-->
|majoritypct  = <!--Majority of the winning candidate-->
|resultsw     = <!--Overall swing to the winning candidate-->

|source       = <!--Source(s) for the results-->
}}

Examples

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