Barry Williams 19 Kinkead St EVAIT

Sitthiphone Saysitthideth 1 LomatiaPl RIVEIT

Nigel Grime 15 Winton PI HOLDER

Canberra Party

Jim Weston 28 Lindrum Cres HOLT

Peter Burrows 4 Vela PI GIRALANG

Glen Smith 3 Phillip Ave WATSON

Tony Urbancik 5 Glass PI KAMBAH

Lee Judd 4 Melbourne Ave DEAKIN

Bernie Clough 59 Petterd St PAGE

Canberra Unity Party

MarionLe 269 Kingsford Smith Dr SPENCE

Barry Reid 41 McEachern Cres MELBA

Don Allan Block27 Sundown Village NARRABUNDAH

Debbie Ellis 12 McManus PI CAL WELL

Ross Stuart 30 Daley Cres FRASER

New Conservatives

Robyn Nolan 30 Cruikshank St WANNIASSA

Fran James 39 Cumpston PI MACGREGOR

Wendy Carlton 2 Tarana St NARRABUNDAH

Rita Cameron 45 Tullaroop St DUFFY

Residents Rally

Bernard Collaery 5 Brockman St NARRABUNDAH

Norm Jensen 29 Harbison Cres WANNIASSA

Chris Donohue 36 Watson St TURNER

David Evans 1 Winstanley St CHAPMAN

Lisa Middlebrook 2/37 Totterdell St BELCONNEN

Jack Kershaw 9 WilsonSt CURTIN

Silva Cengic 25 Phillip Ave WATSON

Noel Haberecht 232Duffy St AINSLIE

Australian Labo:r Party

Rosemary Follett 177 Atherton St DOWNER

Wayne Berry 46 Spofforth St HOLT

Bill Wood 29 Fairfax St O'CONNOR

Roberta McRae 38 Bindaga St ARANDA

Terry Connolly 103 Caley Cres NARRABUNDAH

Annette Ellis 14 Amherst St KAMBAH

David Lamont 7 Sharwood Cres EVAIT

Ellnor Grassby 7 Mountbatten Park Musgrave St YARRALUMLA

David Wedgwood 12 Waterfield PI CHARNWOOD

Marion Reilly 29 Wittenoom Cres STIRLING

Anne Higgins 110 Caley Cres NARRABUNDAH

Independent Candidates

EmileBrunoro 3 Phillip Ave WATSON

Tony Scott 12 Challinor Cres FLOREY

Tony Spagnolo 16 Angas St AINSLIE

Ron Hamilton 91 Dixon Drive DUFFY

Lara Pullin 3 Hancock St SPENCE

Derek Rosborough 8 Pimpampa Close ISABELLA PLAINS

Published for the information of persons interested in the Australian electoral process by the 1Australian Electoral Commission, PO Box E201 Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes, ACT 2600, Ph 06 271 4431, Fax 06 2714558. No. 23, Jan 992

1992 ACT Election and Referendum

Modifi d'Hondt The voting system used in the 1992 ACT Legislative

Assembly election was first used in Australia in the ACT in 1989. It is a heavily modified versionofthed'Hondtsystem, a form oflist proportional representation used for elections in several Western democracies.

Voting

The ballot paper is divided horizontally by a line. The names ofparties and independent candidates appear above the line; the names of party candidates appear below the line.

To vote correctly you must write the number 1 in any box on the ballot paper - in the box next to the party or candidate of your choice.

Then, if you wish, you may show as many further preferences as you like. You cando that by writing numbers from 2 onwards in any ofthe other boxes on the ballot paper. You do not have to number all the boxes.

Party voting tickets

Parties have the option oflodging party voting tickets.

If you vote either above or below the line for a party that has lodged a party voting ticket, and that party is excluded at Stage 3 ofthe count (see below), your vote may be counted towards a continuing party or independent candidate as indicated on that party's voting ticket.

To have your vote treated as a ticket vote in this way, you may show as many preferences for candidates of that one party as you wish, in any order, or vote above the line in the party box; so long as you do not show preferences for any other party or independent candidate.

Copies of the party voting ticket are displayed in all polling places.

Counting the Votes

While voting is easy, the scrutiny, or count, for elec­tions under this system in extremely complicated, and it will take some weeks before a fmal result is known.

83 candidates contestACT poll

Eighty-three candidates will contest the 15 Febru­ary election for the ACT Legislative Assembly.

At the close of nominations on 24 January, 83 candidates had nominated, representing 11 parties and six independent candidates.

In 1989, 22 parties and nine independent candidates stood for election and there were a total of117 candidates.

Details of the candidates who have nominated for the 17 member Legislative Assembly begin on page 3.

The contest for seats is, in the first instance, between parties and independent candidates. Parties can win seats; so can independent candidates. Party candidates, however, can win seats only as a consequence oftheir parties having won seats.

The counting procedure has eight steps:

Step 1 Ballot papers are checked and informal ones ex­cluded.

Step 2 First preference votes are counted. Ifa ballot paper has the number 1 in the box beside a party or independent candidate this will be counted as a first preference vote for that party or candidate.

Ifthe ballot paper shows a number 1 for a particular party candidate that will be counted as a first preference for that candidate's party.

Step 3 Parties and independent candidates who do not receive a quota (approximately 5.56%) of first preference votes are excluded from further counting. Their preferences are transferred to the remaining parties and candidates. The quota is calculated by dividing the total number of first

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preferences for. all parties and independent candidates by one more than the number of vacancies being filled and adding one to the result.

Total first preference vote + 1 = Quota 17 +1

Step 4 A d'Hondt scrutiny takes place. The new vote totals for each party{mdependentcandidate are used to draw up a table (see below) to provisionally allocate seats. These totals are divided progressively by 1,2,3,4 etc and the results are used for the provisional allocation ofseats. The first seat goes to the party or independent candidate with the highest number on this table, the second goes to the party or independent candidate with the next highest, and so on until all 17 seats have been provisionally allocated. If a party is provisionally allocated as many seats as it has candidates, then all those candidates are provisionally elected. Each independent candidate provisionally allocated a seat is also provisionally elected.

Step 5 When a party is provisionally allocated fewer seats than it has candidates, the Senate system of propor­tionalrepresentationis used to distribute preferences amongst its candidates to determine which ofthem will be provision­ally elected. A separate Senate-style scrutiny takes place within each party in this situation.

Step 6 Preferences from votes for candidates not provi­sionally elected at Step 5 are then distributed.

Step 7 Following the transfer of preferences in Step 6, the final allocation of seats takes place, using the same formula as in Step 4. At this stage any independent candi­date allocated a seat is elected.

Step 8 If there are still parties which have won fewer seats than they have candidates, the procedure is Step 5 is repeated to determine which oftheir candidates are elected.

More Information

An extended description ofthe operation ofthe modi­fled d 'Hondtelectoral system is available from the Australian Electoral Commission.

More detailed information on the Acrelectoral system can be found in the Australian Capital Territory (Self­Goverrunent) Act 1988, and the Australian Capital Terri­tory (Electoral) Act 1988. Much of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 also applies to ACf elections.

Copies of these Acts are available from Common­wealth Bookshops.

d 'Hondt Table: distribution of seats - parties and independents Party

A Party

B Party

c Ind. A Ind. Y

Base numbers of votes cast 12,000 8,000 5,000 2,800 2,200

1st rank: base numbers divided by 1 12,000 1st

seat 8,000 2nd seat 5,000 4th

seat 2,800 8th seat 2,200 12th

seat

2nd rank: base numbers divided by 2 6,000 3rd

seat 4,000 5th seat 2,500 10th

seat 1,400 ~see note

below) 1,100

3rd rank: base numbers divided by 3 4,000 6th

seat 2,666 9th seat 1,666 16th

seat 933 ~see note

below) 733

4th rank: base numbers divided by 4 3,000 7th

seat 2,000 13th seat 1,250 700 550

5th rank: base numbers divided by 5 2,400 11th

seat 1,600 17th seat 1,000 560 444

6th rank: base numbers divided by 6 2,000 14th

seat 1,333 833 466 366

7th rank: base numbers divided by 7 1,714 15th

seat 1,142 714 400 314

7 seats 5 seats 3 seats 1 seat 1 seat

Note: Independent A can only receive 1 seat, so the quotients on the 2nd and 3rd rank are disregarded.

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1 · lative Assembly Nominations Candidates are listed in ballot paper order.

Liberal Party

Trevor Kaine 16 Walton St ISAACS

Tony de Domenico 29 Kingsbury St GOWRIE

Greg Cornwell 34 Tompson St GARRAN

Kate Carnell 27 Dalrymple St NARRABUNDAH

Gary Humphries 22 LycettSt WESTON

Lou Westende 107 Mugga Way RED HILL

Kaarina Sutinen 5 Clermont St FISHER

Bill Stefaniak 43 Gungurra Cres RIVETT

Roger Dace 3 Rolfe Pl CHAPMAN

LynJohnson 1 Sheaffe St HOLDER

The Better Management An Independent Team

Harold Hird 46 Clarey Cres SPENCE

Bev Cains 37 Brereton St GARRAN

Alan Fitzgerald 19 Rule St ISAACS

Jim O'Neill 1/32 Archer St DICKSON

lain Caiman 24 James St CURTIN

Christine McGibbon 21 AhernPl MONASH

KenEwan 29 Harrison St SCULLIN

Marc Sadil 12 Powlett St KALEEN

Michael Moore Independent Group

Michael Moore 32 Booroondara St REID

Helen Szuty 1 Barber Cres FLYNN

Tina VanRaay 15 Dutton St DICKSON

Stephen Mugford 10 Booth Cres COOK

Australian Democrats

Julie McCarron-Benson 9 Keira St NARRABUNDAH

Graeme Evans 66 Bindaga St ARANDA

Domenic Mico 45 Mackay Cres KAMBAH

Heinrich Stefanik 16 Jarman Pl KAMBAH

Jim Coates 15 Gatton St FARRER

Ian Buchanan 44 Debenham St MAWSON

Tony Coles 1/14 Currie Cres KINGSTON

Abolish Self-Government Coalition

Dennis Stevenson 29 Wakefield Ave DICKSON

Graeme Orchiston 6 CraferPl KAMBAH

Angela Brown 2 Melrose Gardens Corinna St LYONS

Mike Trevethan 43 Adinda St WARAMANGA

Ute Ernst 14 Cowcher Pl STIRLING

Andy Stodulka 38 Sidaway St CHAPMAN

Geoff Doepel 78 Darwinia Tee CHAPMAN

Patricia Colquhoun 75 Strathgordon Crt LYONS

Fred Corlett 119 StarkeSt HOLT

Hare-Clark Independence Party

Craig Duby 22 Hancock St SPENCE

Fiona Patten 34 Gingana St ARANDA

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