PRSA Links
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Our previous home page
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Electoral Reform Society of South Australia home page
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Western Australia branch page
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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)
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Electoral systems links from
SOSIG (lots more links; some UK bias)
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Electoral Reform Society of Great Britain and Ireland
(various general PR info plus some specific to Britain and Ireland)
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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.
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The Australian
System of Government and
Electoral System fact sheets
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Australian Senate
vote counting rules
(some other legislation is also available via the
AustLII search engine)
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PR in the
NSW upper house
(similar rules to the senate; some general discussion on PR plus how
votes are counted)
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The Australian Electoral Commission
(contact information; federal election details; links to
state electoral commissions which have some state election
details)
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The Parliament of Tasmania
(includes details of the excellent Hare-Clark electoral system,
election details, etc)
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ACT Electoral Commission
(includes details of the excellent Hare-Clark electoral system;
filling of casual vacancies, election details, etc)
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Elections in Malta:The Single
Transferable Vote System in Action, 1921 - 1996
(lots of info on the use of PR in Malta)
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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.
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PR in Cambridge Massachusetts
(includes a brief description of PR)
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STV page
from
Charles J. Grapski
(links to various interesting things including the
Irish constitution,
the New Zealand Government page)
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Elections: Results and Voting systems
from
David Barnsdale
(info on PR with a slight bias towards party list systems; also
discusses single-winner methods)
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Elections and electoral systems
from
Richard Kimber
(information on elections from around the world with some analysis and
info on electoral systems)
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Elections around the world
from Geocities
(electoral calendar, lots of links to parliaments and parties,
not that much on electoral systems)
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Robert Loring
explains his synthesis of STV and Condorcet rules. He offers a free
version of Political Sim (TM) for games and research.
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International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES)
(not much on how votes are counted!)
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Lijphart Elections Archive (searchable index of election material)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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