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2022-02-13

 

 

Electoral systems used by various organizations

 

* Asterisk denotes that the electoral system is specified in the Group’s Constitution or Regulations.


# Denotes that the PRSA counting rules are specified.

 

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Group

Electoral System

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Anglican Diocese of Melbourne (for election by Synod of the Diocesan Council and committees)
Provided for by the Diocese's Regulation of Elections Act 1980.

Single transferable vote proportional representation  *


Anglican dioceses in Australia other than Melbourne

 Multiple plurality

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 Australian Association of Social Workers Ltd. (PR-STV is required by its by-laws)

Single transferable vote proportional representation  *

 

 Australian Conservation Foundation Inc. had PR-STV prescribed in its Constitution from 1974 to 2020, but its 2020 Annual General Meeting altered its Constitution to provide instead that the electoral system be determined, less democratically, by the ACF's indirectly-elected Board.

Single transferable vote proportional representation  *

 

Australian Council of Social Service Inc.
ACOSS used single transferable vote proportional representation for its elections in 2007.

Single transferable vote proportional representation  *

 

#  Australian Physiological Society Inc.
 Schedule 3 of the Society's Constitution specifies the use of the PR Rules in the PRSA Manual.

 Single transferable vote proportional representation  *

 

Australian Republic Movement Ltd.

 Multiple plurality

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Institute of Actuaries Australia Ltd. (see Clause 11.6(a) of ts Constitution)

Single transferable vote proportional representation  *


# International Association of Bio-ethics (Unincorporated, see Article 7.6 of the IAB Constitution).
PRSA Manual specified, as successfully proposed by Professor Peter Singer

Single transferable vote proportional representation  *

 

 

 

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#  Macquarie University Council, NSW. Incorporated by NSW's Macquarie University Act 1989.
Clause 9(7) of Schedule 1 of By-law 2005 prescribes use of the PR Rules in the PRSA Manual.

Single transferable vote proportional representation  *

 

 

 

 

 

 

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# National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Ltd. The electoral system is specified in a by-law.
The Board of the Victorian Trust in 2012 replaced its system of single transferable vote proportional representation with a multiple plurality system the Trust discarded 30 years earlier, but a subsequent Board restored the original PR-STV system.

Single transferable vote proportional representation  *

 

 National Union of Students Inc. has its Regulation R48 and By-law B86 each stipulate that ballots are to be counted using 'optional preferential proportional representation'.

Single transferable vote proportional representation  *

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Oxfam Australia
The Board of Oxfam Australia decided to discontinue elections to its Board in 2011. It had previously specified a single transferable vote proportional representation system in its rules.


 

 

 

 

 

 

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RMIT University (for Staff Association elections)

Single transferable vote proportional representation  *

 

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Ltd. (Its Constitution states that the electoral system shall be specified by regulation. Appendix A of Board Electoral Regulation dated 15 September 2021 prescribes an idiosyncratic quasi-plurality system.)

An idiosyncratic quasi-plurality system specified in the Regulation cited *

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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University of Melbourne Alumni Council's electoral system regrettably changed in 2011 from its pioneering single transferable vote proportional representation system to a plurality system.

Plurality
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University of Sydney's Students' Representative Council:
Schedule 2 of its Constitution specifies single-transferable vote proportional representation.

Single transferable vote proportional representation  *

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Victorian Local Governance Association Inc:

Section 29.6 of the VLGA Constitution prescribes that ballots at elections shall be counted by optional preferential proportional representation.

Single transferable vote proportional representation  *

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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