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droophp/droophp
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STV vote counting

0.2.2(11y ago)8383[1 issues](https://github.com/pjcdawkins/DrooPHP/issues)GPLPHPPHP >=5.4.0

Since May 11Pushed 4y ago6 watchersCompare

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DrooPHP
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[](#droophp)

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Summary
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[](#summary)

- Author: Patrick Dawkins
- License: GPL
- Requires: PHP >= 5.4

DrooPHP will be a PHP library to enable counting results for an STV election.

It's inspired by the Python project "Droop". See:

References
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[](#references)

- How to Conduct an Election by the Single Transferable Vote, R. A. Newland, F. S. Britton (Electoral Reform Society of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1997):
- BLT File format (Droop):
- Reference STV rules (Proportional Representation Foundation):
- Single transferable vote (Wikipedia): [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single\_transferable\_vote](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote)
- Counting Single Transferable Votes (Wikipedia): [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting\_Single\_Transferable\_Votes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_Single_Transferable_Votes)

###  Health Score

26

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LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance18

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity51

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~4 days

Total

4

Last Release

4366d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![pjcdawkins](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1465106?v=4)](https://github.com/pjcdawkins "pjcdawkins (131 commits)")

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Tags

countvoteelectionstv

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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