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19th May 2006

 

WHY ACF'S OLD, UNFAIR, MULTIPLE FIRST-PAST-THE-POST SYSTEM WAS NOT USED AFTER 1973

  

 

Election Results for the Australian Conservation Foundation Council: 1973

The year 1973 was the last time the ACF Council was elected by its old multiple first-past-the-post electoral system, which was the system abandoned for Senate polls in 1919. ACF's present quota-preferential proportional representation system, which is the counting system that has been used for Senate polls since 1948, replaced that at a 1974 postal ballot referendum of ACF members. See the link just below for why the old system was defective and replaced.

ACF’s last use of its Multiple First-past-the-Post System in 1973, and WHY IT IS DEFECTIVE

 

Election Results for the Australian Conservation Foundation Council: 2003

This was the election for the ACF Council held thirty years after ACF held its last Council election under the multiple first-past-the-post system in 1973, details of which appear at the link at the bottom of this page. Since then ACF has used a quota-preferential proportional representation system, results of which in 2003 for each of the ACF’s seven electoral districts are shown at the links below:

Australian Capital Territory

Tasmania

New South Wales

Victoria

Queensland

Western Australia

South Australia