Congratulations to the Plaid Cymru candidates in Ynys Môn for a dramatic increase in seats and 34.3% of the equalized vote.
The "equalized vote" corrects the distortion of different voters having different number of votes, depending of the number of seats in the electoral division. In a two-member divison, each voter has two half-votes; in a three-member division, the each voter has three third-votes.
With twelve of the thirty seats we were the big winners, and it should be possible for us to lead the new council with support from only three or four other councillors; perhaps the three from Labour, perhaps some of the independents instead.
And even though the anglocentric media are headlining UKIP's success in England, it is nice to point out that Nigel Farage is completely wrong when he says that his party are getting over 25% of the vote "everywhere we stand". They only got 7.8% of the equalized vote in Ynys Môn ... although that is rather better than both the Tories (6.6%) and the LibDems (5.2%) managed.
