It is possible to introduce Hare-Clark while retaining the periodic election of 22 MLCs at every general election for the 88 existing Assembly seats and maintaining the present system of each Province being continuous with a set number of Districts, which has been a valuable feature of the present single-vacancy system that has ensured that the Council cannot suffer from any greater gerrymander or malapportionment problems than the Assembly. Those problems are not nearly so important with a multi-member PR system, as nearly all votes cast are effective, compared with the mere 50% plus one vote that is effective in single-vacancy systems.
This model would require Victoria to have just two provinces each returning 11 MLCs at each periodic election, to avoid even district magnitudes or differently sized electorates. It is expected that this model would not be widely favoured owing to the provinces and ballot-papers being too large, and the quota rather small. This model has been used for the PR analyses of Victorian Legislative Council elections by the PRSAV-T, due to its closeness to the current system. The analyses show the highly unrepresentative nature of the current system of single vacancy electorates compared with Hare-Clark and are summarised in Appendix A.