Gabriel Abensour Sellström and Meidi Runefelt Tõnisson
A voting system is defined as a procedure through which political power is distributed among candidates - from the ballot box to the parliament. This essay specifically seeks to contrast the Single Transferable Vote system with two other voting algorithms (Modified Sainte-Laguë and First-Past-The-Post), by constructing Java implementations of the algorithms and running example data through them. Thus, the suitability of a possible real-life implementation of the Single Transferable Vote method in a Swedish parliament context is evaluated. Furthermore, an alternative version of the original STV method which has been modified to fit these conditions is suggested. The effects of such an implementation on election outcomes are not entirely conclusive, and the conclusion is that more research is needed before a definite evaluation can be made.