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Proportional Representation Society of Australia (Queensland Branch)

Submission to the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission (EARC) on Legislative Assembly Electoral Review
(May 1990)

Appendix IV

Decrease in "Wasted" Votes as Number of Members per Electorate Increases

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[This graph is referred to in section 1 of Appendix I]

For those who can't see it, the graph shows effectiveness increasing to 75% for three members, 83% for five, and 90% for nine.

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Graph prepared by Ed Haber, Technical Adviser to the PRSA. Used as Appendix IV in the submission written in May 1990 by Tom Round on behalf of the Proportional Representation Society of Australia (Queensland Branch). Converted into html in January 2000 by John Pyke, with assistance as to the graphics from Jim Pyke.