Proportional Representation - Australian Capital Territory
| Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly | ||
|---|---|---|
| Name of PR System | Hare-Clark | |
| Ballot Paper | Ticket Voting Above or beside the line voting | No. |
| Rotation of candidate names | Robson Rotation within each column. | |
| Directions | 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.) | |
| Formality | 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. | |
| Distribution of a Surplus | Method of distribution of surplus votes and calculation for new transfer value | 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. |
| Election of a candidate | Exclusion of candidates | 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. |
| Exclusion of the lowest candidate when two or more are equal | 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. | |
| Casual Vacancies | How is a casual vacancy filled? | 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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