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