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Proportional
Representation Society of
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PR-STV
Analysis of the 1998 polls for the 49th
Legislative Assembly of Queensland
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Estimated No. of PR
(Hare-Clark) seats in possible
multi-member divisions
Click on a blue
hyperlink of interest.
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Summary
Table: Click on this table, which
shows that the new Beattie ALP
Government, plus its one Independent
supporter, jointly gained only 40.48%
of first preference votes, yet they gained
50.56% of the single-member seats. The
table shows that this unjust imbalance
would not apply under a Hare-Clark
proportional representation electoral
system, where the seats for ALP, Greens
and both Independents
jointly would be only 46.06%. Graph: Click on
the graph of the
various parties’ percentage of the vote,
which illustrates the statement above. The percentage of NPA-Liberal Hare-Clark seats
(32.58%) would have allowed that coalition
to continue governing as long as at least
16 of the 19 MLAs
of the One Nation Party (ONP),
which party would hold the remainder of
the seats (21.35%), voted against
no-confidence motions, as the 28
Coalition MLAs
other than the Speaker and those 16 One Nation MLAs would
together hold 44 of the 88 seats on the
floor of Parliament. That is enough, with
the Speaker's casting vote, to defeat a
motion of no-confidence. Alternatively, for the
ALP
to force a change of government under Hare-Clark with
the vote it gained, 6 other MLAs would have to
support it. With Hare-Clark, casual
vacancies filled by countback
of general election ballot-papers, as for
the Tasmanian and ACT Assemblies, the
predictable party continuity lets
Governments last full term. Details of the 11
Multi-member PR Districts: Click on
details
to see the PR districts, the votes in
each, and the seats possibly won. *
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