
PRSA Links
- Our previous home page
- Electoral
Reform Society of South Australia home page
- Western
Australia branch page
- ACE
(Administration and Cost of Elections) (lots of links on
electoral matters - far more than I have listed below, including Electoral
systems and civic education)
- Electoral
Reform Society of Great Britain and Ireland (various general PR info
plus some specific to Britain and Ireland)
- The Center for
Voting and Democracy (USA-based; includes legislation, list of
countries using PR and other info)
Also has an online Javascript version of the PRSA "Gerrymander
Wheel" which allows you to play Redistribution Roulette to show
how single member electorates can lead to almost arbitrary electoral
outcomes, depending on electorate boundaries.
- The Australian System of
Government and Electoral
System fact sheets
- Australian Senate vote
counting rules (some other legislation is also available via the AustLII search
engine)
- PR in the NSW upper house
(similar rules to the senate; some general discussion on PR plus how votes
are counted)
- The Australian
Electoral Commission (contact information; federal election details;
links to state electoral commissions which have some state election
details)
- The
Parliament of Tasmania (includes details of the excellent Hare-Clark
electoral system, election details, etc)
- ACT Electoral
Commission (includes details of the excellent Hare-Clark electoral
system; filling of casual vacancies, election details, etc)
- Elections in
Malta:The Single Transferable Vote System in Action, 1921 - 1996 (lots
of info on the use of PR in Malta)
- Douglas Amy's PR
library (excellent bibliography and a decent collection of links to PR
organisations)
There is a relatively new book by Nick
Loenen, Citizenship
and Democracy: A Case for Proportional Representation, about PR in
Canada which has some extracts online.
- PR
in Cambridge Massachusetts (includes a brief description of PR)
- STV
page from Charles J.
Grapski (links to various interesting things including the Irish constitution, the New Zealand Government page)
- Elections:
Results and Voting systems from David Barnsdale (info on PR
with a slight bias towards party list systems; also discusses
single-winner methods)
- Elections
and electoral systems from Richard Kimber (information on elections
from around the world with some analysis and info on electoral systems)
- Elections
around the world from Geocities (electoral calendar, lots of
links to parliaments and parties, not that much on electoral systems)
- Robert
Loring explains his synthesis of STV and Condorcet rules. He offers a
free version of Political Sim (TM) for games and research.
- International Foundation
for Election Systems (IFES) (not much on how votes are counted!)
- Lijphart
Elections Archive (searchable index of election material)
- To get on the Election Methods e-mail list send the
message with "subscribe" as the subject to election-methods-list-request@eskimo.com
(quite active last time I looked; in fact too active for someone as busy
as myself)
- To get on the Citizens for Proportional Representation
(USA-based) e-mail list send the message "subscribe" to c-p-r@netcom.com (I haven't checked
this out for ages - it may no longer be active)
- To get on the Voting Systems e-mail list send the
message "subscribe" to voting-systems@netcom.com
(I haven't checked this out for ages - it may no longer be active)
- Political resources for
VCE (high school) page from Malcolm Farnsworth (lots of links to
pages on Australian + some overseas politics)
Also
try your favourite search engines. If you find something particularly
interesting which is not listed above, please let us know.
Last updated Mon Feb 5 09:20:39 EST 2007