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PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION
SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA |
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Index ‘A-Z’ Click on a
blue hyperlink of interest. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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Accredited PR
Vote-counting Officers, and Endorsed PR
Vote-counting Software Operators |
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| Advances and Setbacks in Australia's electoral systems, and the side of politics instigating them | |
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Alternative
vote is a synonym for a
preferential vote in a single-vacancy poll – in
the failed 2011 UK
electoral referendum it was
proposed that marking of preferences should be
fully optional, as for the NSW Legislative
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AUSTRALIAN
CAPITAL TERRITORY proportional
representation history at State and municipal
level |
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Ballot-paper
specimens, for quota-preferential
PR polls, with a choice of 3 different formality
rules |
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Below-the-line voting, except
for Victoria’s
Upper House, is unfairly burdensome
to voters. See a website
that makes it easier. |
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Bibliography
of publications relating to proportional
representation, some with hyperlinks to the
publication |
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Campaign by
NSW Senator Helen Coonan in 1998-99 to discriminate
against independent and minor party voters
at Senate elections |
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CANADA proportional representation history at National and Provincial level |
| Casual vacancies filled by party appointment where direct election by countback has not yet replaced that | |
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Casual vacancies in positions that were filled using PR are best filled by countback or a further count |
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Cleese video
urging quota-preferential (STV) proportional
representation for the UK House of Commons: or our
higher
quality DVD |
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Clients that have used the PRSAV-T Inc. vote-counting service |
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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA proportional representation history at National level – See also the Sub-index for the sections of this item. |
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Constitutions
of the PRSA,
and of its New South
Wales, South Australia,
Western
Australia and Victoria-Tasmania
branches |
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Constraints
are not necessary or advisable in proportional
representation elections |
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Contact details for PRSA National Officers and Branches |
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Countback, for filling casual vacancies in multi-member electoral districts that use quota-preferential proportional representation |
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Countback
in 2007 by-election in |
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Representation under the Hare-Clark System -
The Need for Seven-member Electorates: 1958 Report to the Tasmanian Parliament by Dr George Howatt |
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Direct election of candidates is important |
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Election Night
Special is a 5-minute video on
YouTube of a 1970 sketch by Monty Python’s Flying
Circus. See also the transcript and
commentary on it. Because of the
non-transferable votes in the |
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Electoral
Commissions and Parliaments in |
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Electoral
Matters Committee of Parliament of
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| Electoral Representation Review
submissions on municipal reviews to
the Victorian Electoral Commission made by PRSAV-T Inc. |
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Electoral
systems in Australia as summarized on
the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
website. |
| Electoral systems in Australia
that applied in the various States for
the first federal election in 1901 |
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| Entrenchment of electoral provisions in
the Federal, State and Territory constitutions |
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Everybody
Counts: A 17-page
A5 booklet with a straightforward explanation of
the Hare-Clark electoral system, by Neil Robson |
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First-past-the-post (Plurality) electoral systems have fatal flaws. |
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First preference votes in quota-preferential PR systems are important, but are not the only votes that can form a quota. Large surpluses can lead to candidates receiving surplus transfers being elected without receiving any first preference votes at all. |
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“Gerrymander
Wheel” - PRSA’s small physical model
gives a simple, convincing demonstration of how
even the impartial placing of the boundaries of
single-member electoral districts can drastically
affect the electoral outcome, without a single
vote changing |
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Gregory
Fractional Transfers of surplus
votes: The Original, Unweighted Inclusive, and
Weighted Inclusive |
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Group Voting Tickets in
elections for the Senate,
all mainland State upper
houses, and municipal elections in
all the NSW
municipalities that use PR,
and for the City of
Melbourne in Victoria |
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Hare-Clark
electoral system used in Tasmania and the
Australian Capital Territory |
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Honorary Life
Members of the Proportional
Representation Society of Australia |
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‘How-to-vote’
cards used in Australian elections |
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Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters: PRSAV-T Inc. 2006 written submission & oral evidence to Inquiry into Civics & Electoral Education |
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Links to other sites |
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MALTA proportional representation history at National level |
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Meek system of
counting for quota-preferential
(single transferable vote in multi-member
electorates) polls |
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Membership details and application forms for the various Branches of the PRSA |
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Municipal
electoral systems in Australia |
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Model rules for electing a committee & filling
casual vacancies: See Rules 22 & 23 of the PRSAV-T Inc. Constitution |
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National
Officers since PRSA’s inception |
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Newsletters of
the PRSA, Quota Notes |
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New South
Wales 2011 elections: Preference data files are
accessible at ftp.elections.nsw.gov.au The file size is up to
650 MB. |
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NEW SOUTH WALES proportional representation history at State and municipal level |
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NEW ZEALAND proportional representation history at State and municipal level |
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NORFOLK ISLAND proportional representation history at Territory level |
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NORTHERN TERRITORY proportional representation at Territory level |
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Odd number of positions to be filled, rather than an even number, is always recommended for use in a proportional representation election |
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Order
in which candidates’ names appear on ballot-papers |
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Organizations that specify their electoral system in their Constitution or subsidiary rules |
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Parliamentary electoral systems in Australia |
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Parliaments and
Electoral Commissions in |
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Party List
systems of PR are inferior to
quota-preferential systems of PR |
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Party List systems have been initiated or introduced for 4 different Australian legislatures, but each was replaced by a quota-preferential PR system. |
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Plurality
(First-past-the-post) electoral
systems have fatal flaws. |
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Proportional Representation analyses of various Federal and State elections |
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PRSA Rules
for counting quota-preferential proportional
representation elections |
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QUEENSLAND proportional representation history at State and municipal level |
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Quota definition: The definition is of the Droop quota, which is the quota used in modern quota-preferential systems rather than the earlier Hare quota. |
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Ranking of
candidates elected at a
quota-preferential (STV) poll, in an order of
priority after their election |
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Referendums,
at which voters have been asked to choose between
proportional representation systems and others,
have succeeded in introducing PR systems. |
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Regimentation of voters by legislative provisions, such as those for Senate ballot-papers, that allow parties to determine the order of candidates' names |
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Regulations
made by the Proportional Representation Society of
Australia |
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Regulations
made by PRSA Branches |
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Representation of voters relates to whom they freely choose - and not to whether the candidates they choose necessarily resemble them in some aspect - so an electoral structure to engineer their representation by somebody like them can distort voters’ wishes. |
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SOUTH AUSTRALIA proportional representation history at State and municipal level |
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“Schoolboy
election” example by Thomas Hill in
1820 shows how quota-preferential PR works where a
secret ballot is not used |
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Speakers from
PRSAV-T Inc. will, at no charge,
address |
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Stage
Management of Senate Ballot-papers,
which began well before the above-the-line
and below-the-line device was
introduced |
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“Tablecloth”
ballot-paper (1010 x 720 mm) used
in the 1996 New South Wales Legislative Council
election |
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TASMANIA proportional representation history at State and municipal level |
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Tasmanian state
election reports beginning from
1909 – an excellent resource on the Tasmanian
Electoral Commission website |
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UNITED KINGDOM proportional representation history at National and municipal level |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA proportional representation history at National, State and municipal level |
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VICTORIA proportional representation history at State and municipal level |
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Victoria-Tasmania
Branch present and former Honorary Life
Members and guest speakers
at its previous Annual General Meetings |
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Vote-counting Service for clubs, incorporated associations etc. |
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WESTERN AUSTRALIA proportional representation history at State and municipal level |
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Winner-take-all electoral
systems |
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“Your Vote –
Effective or Wasted?” – A small,
free booklet that compares, with illustrative
diagrams, the counting methods used for the major
single-vacancy and multiple-vacancy elections that
Australia has used for public elections. |
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