nCube : Quota required under STV Voting

nCubes hold all the statistics presented by the Vision of Britain system, and are defined as combinations of variables. For example, the age-sex tables that appear in most census reports are held as two-dimensional nCubes in which one dimension is a variable categorising sex and the other variable defines a set of age groups. nCubes can have many dimensions, such as age by sex by occupation by cause of death, or just one.

Identifier:
N_ELECTION_QUOTA
Name:
Quota required under STV Voting
Type:
nCube (N)
Additive:
Yes
Cube Display:
Yes
Text:
This nCube holds the quota each candidate had to achieve for automatic election under the Single Transferrable Vote system, which was used in University Constituencies between 1918 and 1948. Votes in excess of the quota were then transferred to other candidates from the same party. The quota for a seat was computed from the total number of electors and the number of seats for the constituency.

nCube " Quota required under STV Voting " is contained within:


Themes, which organise the database into broad topics:

Entity ID Entity Name
T_POL Political Life

Universes, definining what the values in datasets add up to:

Entity ID Entity Name
U_ELECTORATE Persons registered to vote



nCube " Quota required under STV Voting " contains:


Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

Entity ID Entity Name
V_ELECTION_QUOTA Quota for University Constituencies



Quota required under STV Voting: Data map listing


Each of our datasets, or nCubes, combines one or more variables (Var) each of which consists of a set of categories. The data map lists all the possible combinations of categories. The cell references are the identifiers held in our main table of statistics, recording what each number measures.

Cell Reference Var Category Value
ELECTION_QUOTA:quota 1 Quota of Votes