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Loading ballots from file ballots (7).blt.
Ballot file contains 8 candidates and 647 ballots.
No candidates have withdrawn.
Ballot file contains 647 non-empty ballots.

Method Options:
  Title -- Postgraduate Officer
  Seats -- 1
Counting votes using ERS97 STV.

 R|RON              |PRABU,  DURGESH H|SODHAR,  IRSHAD A|LEE,  KYE HOAN   |KAMATH,  KRUTHIKA|TARIQ,  MUHAMMAD |CASTELLANOS,  SAR|SHWETANGI,  SHANA|Exhausted        |Surplus          |Threshold        
  |                 |ARI              |LI               |                 | RAMESH          |IBRAHIM          |AH               |                 |                 |                 |                 
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 1|            34.00|           130.00|           104.00|            90.00|            54.00|            77.00|           149.00|             9.00|             0.00|             0.00|           323.50
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  | Count of first choices. The initial quota is 323.50. No candidates have surplus votes so candidates will be eliminated and their votes transferred for the next round.
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 2|                 |           131.00|           106.00|            92.00|            55.00|            79.00|           154.00|                 |            30.00|             0.00|           308.50
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  | All losing candidates are eliminated. Count after substage 1 of 1 of eliminating RON and SHWETANGI,  SHANA. Transferred votes with value 1.00. Since no candidate has been elected, the quota is
  | reduced to 308.50. No candidates have surplus votes so candidates will be eliminated and their votes transferred for the next round.
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 3|                 |           138.00|           109.00|            98.00|                 |            82.00|           165.00|                 |            55.00|             0.00|           296.00
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  | All losing candidates are eliminated. Count after substage 1 of 1 of eliminating KAMATH,  KRUTHIKA RAMESH. Transferred votes with value 1.00. Since no candidate has been elected, the quota is
  | reduced to 296.00. No candidates have surplus votes so candidates will be eliminated and their votes transferred for the next round.
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 4|                 |           142.00|           140.00|           103.00|                 |                 |           169.00|                 |            93.00|             0.00|           277.00
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  | All losing candidates are eliminated. Count after substage 1 of 1 of eliminating TARIQ,  MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM. Transferred votes with value 1.00. Since no candidate has been elected, the quota is
  | reduced to 277.00. No candidates have surplus votes so candidates will be eliminated and their votes transferred for the next round.
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 5|                 |           161.00|           159.00|                 |                 |                 |           192.00|                 |           135.00|             0.00|           256.00
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  | All losing candidates are eliminated. Count after substage 1 of 1 of eliminating LEE,  KYE HOAN. Transferred votes with value 1.00. Since no candidate has been elected, the quota is reduced to
  | 256.00. No candidates have surplus votes so candidates will be eliminated and their votes transferred for the next round.
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 6|                 |           192.00|                 |                 |                 |                 |           221.00|                 |           234.00|            14.50|           206.50
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  | All losing candidates are eliminated. Count after substage 1 of 1 of eliminating SODHAR,  IRSHAD ALI. Transferred votes with value 1.00. Since no candidate has been elected, the quota is reduced
  | to 206.50. Candidate CASTELLANOS,  SARAH has reached the threshold and is elected.

Winner is CASTELLANOS,  SARAH.