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Australian Capital Territory Legislative
Assembly
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Name of PR System
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Hare-Clark
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Ballot Paper
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Ticket Voting Above or beside the line voting
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No.
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Rotation of candidate names
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Robson Rotation within each column.
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Directions
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Number [N] boxes from 1 to [N] in the order of your choice. You
may then show as many further preferences as you wish by writing
numbers from [N+1] onwards in other boxes.
(Where N equals the number of candidates to be elected.)
(2004 ACT Legislative Assembly election ballot paper - 5 or 7 candidates
to be elected.)
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Formality
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A formal vote must contain a single first preference (or number
1).
Further preferences are optional. Preferences can be counted until
sequential numbering breaks down.
A vote is informal if it does not obtain a first preference, or
if it contains more than one first preference. Ticks and crosses
are not accepted.
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Distribution of a Surplus
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Method of distribution of surplus votes and
calculation for new transfer value
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Only the last parcel of ballot papers received by the elected candidate
is distributed to pass on the surplus votes.
Transfer Value = Number
of surplus votes
Number
of ballot papers in the last parcel which are distributed to
a 'continuing' candidate
The transfer value cannot be calculated until the surplus has been
distributed. The parcel's new transfer value cannot exceed the pervious
transfer value when received by the elected candidate.
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Election of a candidate
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Exclusion of candidates
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Amalgamated Transfer Values.
All of the ballot paper parcels received by the excluded candidate
are amalgamated by transfer value and distributed in decreasing
order of magnitude.
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Exclusion of the lowest candidate when two
or more are equal
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Exclude the candidate that had the lowest total the last time those
candidates were unequal.
If those candidates were equal at all times, exclude the candidate
determined by lot.
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Casual Vacancies
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How is a casual vacancy filled?
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The new Member is chosen by recount.
If a recount is not practicable, the Legislative Assembly shall
choose a replacement as follows.
If the vacating Member was endorsed by a political party at the
time of election, the replacement must if possible be nominated
by the same party. Otherwise the person chosen cannot have been
a member of a political party during the preceding 12 months.
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