General elections
3Voting system in Northern Ireland
The system of election of MEPs in Northern Ireland is to be a single transferable vote system under which—
(a)
a vote is capable of being given so as to indicate the voter’s order of preference for the candidates, and
(b)
a vote is capable of being transferred to the next choice—
(i)
when the vote is not required to give a prior choice the necessary quota of votes, or
(ii)
when, owing to the deficiency in the number of votes given for a prior choice, that choice is eliminated from the list of candidates.