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Make it clearer how undercontested is calculated #1857

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Subtract total number of other candidates that could win from the
winner count. This is the minimum number of seats that the 'winning'
party will win.

  • Count up which party has the most candidates, remove them from the
    candidate total
  • Count up the remaining number of candidates from other parties, and
    subtract this from the number of seats up
  • That number represents the minimum number of seats the party with
    most candidates will win:
    So e.g:
    5 candidates in total
    3 seats up
    3 Labour
    1 Conservative
    1 Green

5 (candidate total) - 3 (labour total) = 2 (or 1 con + 1 green)
3 (seats up) - 2 (other candidates, assuming they won) = 1 (Has to go to Labour)

Subtract total number of other candidates that could win from the
winner count. This is the minimum number of seats that the 'winning'
party will win.

- Count up which party has the most candidates, remove them from the
candidate total
- Count up the remaining number of candidates from other parties, and
subtract this from the number of seats up
- That number represents the minimum number of seats the party with
most candidates will win:
So e.g:
5 candidates in total
3 seats up
3 Labour
1 Conservative
1 Green

5 (candidate total) - 3 (labour total) = 2 (or 1 con + 1 green)
3 (seats up) - 2 (other candidates, assuming they won) = 1 (Has to go to Labour)
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