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So what went wrong?

THE SYSTEM Two elections - one day A new system to elect local councils was introduced this time. It used the single transferable vote system (STV), where voters rank their candidates in order of preference by marking 1, 2 and 3 etc on their paper.

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THE SYSTEM Two elections - one day A new system to elect local councils was introduced this time. It used the single transferable vote system (STV), where voters rank their candidates in order of preference by marking 1, 2 and 3 etc on their paper.