election_title: "Block preferential voting — seat 1 of 2 (bakery co-op board)"

scenario_description: |-
  BLOCK PREFERENTIAL VOTING (also called preferential block voting) is the
  winner-take-all, multi-seat version of instant runoff: run a full IRV count,
  seat the winner, strike that winner from every ballot, and run IRV again for
  the next seat. Every voter helps decide every seat, so it is majoritarian —
  NOT proportional, and not STV.
  This file is SEAT 1: an ordinary RCV-IRV count on the whole 12-voter, four
  candidate field. A 7-voter savoury-free majority (5 Almond-first + 2 Brioche
  first) faces a 5-voter Croissant/Danish minority.
  Round 1: Almond 5, Croissant 5, Brioche 2, Danish 0. Textbook Hare would drop
  Danish alone (nothing to transfer), then Brioche, whose 2 ballots move to
  Almond for 7 of 12 — a majority — and the first seat. The vendored pyrankvote
  BATCHES the two: Brioche and Danish are both marked Rejected in round 1, since
  their 2 combined votes cannot catch either leader. Same winner, one fewer
  round printed.
  Seat 2 continues in bpv_bakery_seat2_c3_b12.yaml, on these same ballots with
  Almond struck out. The pair together IS one block-preferential count.
  Lesson: 06_Other/RCV_IRV/concepts/variants/RCV-IRV-block-preferential.md

voting_method: RCV_IRV
num_winners: 1

ballots: |-
  5:Almond>Brioche>Croissant>Danish
  2:Brioche>Almond>Croissant>Danish
  5:Croissant>Danish>Almond>Brioche

expected_winners:
- Almond

# file: bpv_bakery_seat1_c4_b12.yaml