Dan Boyle elected Green Party Chairman

[David Cochrane]

Dan Boyle has been elected Green Party Chairman, taking over from John Gormley.

Senator Boyle got elected on 2415 points.

Other candidates

Paul Gogarty TD 2237 Points
Cllr Bronwen Maher 2180 Points
John Barry 1883 Points
Phil Kearney 1490 Points

[Ard-Taoiseach]

Are you at the election ceremony, sir?

[krayZpaving]

Four minutes, and no twitter yet...

[adamirer]

closer than expected.. well done Dan.

[krayZpaving]

Four minutes, and no twitter yet...

Got it now


No real surprise in the result, although the numbers are a lot closer than I expected.
Although, if you work it out, the numbers will always be a bit close in this system:
500 1st pref votes = 2500 points
500 2nd pref votes, with no 1st prefs = 2000 points

So, a result that would look like a landslide under STV (500 votes to 0) now looks like a reasonable close thing (2500 points to 2000).

[Defeated Romanticist]

How are the points calculated?

"Very Good-ness" in an IT kind of a way?

[codology]

David whats the story with points rather than votes.

[Ard-Taoiseach]

Wow, I did not expect that it would be that even. How did they get 'points' did they have to take penalties at some stage? Did they have to play Scrabble against each other? Did they have to build up WeightWatcher points over the election campaign?

[krayZpaving]

David whats the story with points rather than votes.

Explanation here in this morning's story.

[krayZpaving]

A total of 777 votes were cast, which represents 50 per cent of the Party’s 1,552 eligible members.

777 votes * 5 points for a 1st pref on a fully transferred ballot = max score of 3885


So, I'd say Boyle probably got close to or just above a simple majority of first preferences.