Yes, but what I mean is that if a load of new candidates stand, most of them would have no chance of winning regardless of the voting system. On Monday 17 June 2024 at 17:02:55 BST, Closed Limelike Curves <closed.limelike.curves@gmail.com> wrote: The decrease after the first election could just be because the new candidates naively think that they will suddenly have a shot at winning or getting close, and then finding out that it's not as simple as that, so they don't stand in subsequent elections. Right, I think that's what's happening: candidates who didn't have a shot under FPP are learning they still have no shot under IRV.

Ahh, the paper accounts for that by only looking at candidates who got some meaningful share of the vote. On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 10:44 AM Toby Pereira <tdp201b@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Yes, but what I mean is that if a load of new candidates stand, most of > them would have no chance of winning regardless of the voting system. > > On Monday 17 June 2024 at 17:02:55 BST, Closed Limelike Curves < > closed.limelike.curves@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The decrease after the first election could just be because the new > candidates naively think that they will suddenly have a shot at winning or > getting close, and then finding out that it's not as simple as that, so > they don't stand in subsequent elections. > > Right, I think that's what's happening: candidates who didn't have a shot > under FPP are learning they still have no shot under IRV. > > >