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Originally Posted by mrabody
Now imagine a scenario where Marta comes second on the list, but very close behind her are three other candidates, (lets call them candidates A, B, and C) all separated by a few points. It isn't a stretch to imagine that they will all feel cheated. And because voters may have voted very differently if they knew that Marta was standing elsewhere and because each voter's thought process is unique, we cannot know where these other candidates would have placed on the list if the information had been made available to the members.
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This is a very likely scenario in the SE where MA is the only female on the list. Women often do extremely well, almost disproportionately so, in UKIP elections.