PRSA Links

• PRSA's previous home page
  
  
• Proportional Representation Society of Australia: New South Wales Branch
  
  
• Proportional Representation Society of Australia: South Australia Branch
  
  
• Proportional Representation Society of Australia: Western Australia Branch
  
  
• Electoral Reform Society (UK) (various general PR info items plus some specific to Britain and Ireland)
  
  
• STV Action  (United Kingdom site emphasizing the importance of direct election with candidate-based Single Transferable Vote proportional representation)
  
  
• Fair Vote Canada
  
  
• Fair Voting British Columbia
  
  
• Fair Vote USA (The Center for Voting and Democracy) (USA-based; includes legislation, list of countries using PR etc, and emphasizes direct election with candidate-based Single Transferable Vote proportional representation)
  It has an online Javascript version of PRSA's 'Gerrymander Wheel', which lets you play Redistribution Roulette to show how single-member electorates can lead to almost arbitrary electoral outcomes, depending on electorate boundaries.
  
  
•  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)
• 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 2014-02-19